Tasting Notes
Floral Gooseberry on the nose Light English white wine Good quality
✦ Wine Intel
AI ResearchedChapel Down Bacchus 2024 is England's top-selling white still wine, sourced from vineyards across Kent (82%) and East Sussex (18%), and is celebrated as one of England's finest aromatic whites. The wine undergoes whole-bunch pressing and six months of lees aging in stainless steel, preserving its vivid elderflower, gooseberry, and citrus character. Often likened to Sauvignon Blanc in style, it has been gaining growing recognition as a benchmark for English still wine.
Chapel Down
Chapel Down is England's largest wine producer, based at its Tenterden estate in Kent since 1995, farming over 1,024 acres of vines and producing an award-winning range of sparkling and still wines under head winemaker Josh Donaghay-Spire.
Blend
100% Bacchus — sourced from Kent (82%) and East Sussex (18%)
Tasting Profile
Pale water-white with a greenish tint, offering pungent elderflower, gooseberry, and green-apple aromas; the palate is light-bodied, crisp, and refreshing with good acidity and a lingering nettley fruit finish.
Region
Kent's southeast England vineyards benefit from a cool maritime climate and varied soils — chalk, clay, and loam — on south-facing slopes that share terroir similarities with Champagne. The Bacchus grape has been grown at Chapel Down's Tenterden site since 1987, making it ideally suited to England's cooler growing conditions.
Price Context
Approximately £13–£15 per bottle in the UK (direct from Chapel Down and major retailers); around US$20 in the USA.
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