Festive Sparkling Wines

Our first sparkling pink Portuguese wine and it's dry, medium bodied and super zest with aromas of citrus fruits and biscuits. It is soft and refreshing with a delicate acidity that gives it a great balance.  Great match with salads and good company.

This wine is made with 100% Pinot Blanc from Cremant d'Alsace AOC. It is crafted in the same fashion as champagne using the traditional method and the result is a fresh, light and fruity sparkling wine with green apple and lemon aromas, fine bubbles and a delicate palate.

Nautilus Cuvee Brut is inspired by the richness and depth of Bollinger Special Cuvee, which in turn takes its inspiration from Pinot Noir - which provides the toasty depths of flavour, along with three years ageing on lees in bottle, before release. The result is a dry, full bodied, deliciously yeasty sparkling wine is a blend of 71.4% Pinot Noir and 28.6% Chardonnay. All grapes are hand picked, fermented with a champagne yeast with only the first run of juice going to fermentation to retain a fineness in flavour and texture. The wine typically contains 5 to 15% of reserve wines, held back from previous vintages, to add complexity and consistency to the wine. 

It is aged on lees in bottle for three years prior to disgorgement, which takes place regularly to ensure every bottle on the market remains fresh in flavour. 

Winemaker Clive Jones creates a consistently vibrant sparkling wine here which has pronounced yeasty, fresh bread aromas and rich savoury flavours. 

Nautilus is a member of Method? Marlborough, a group of quality minded winemakers in the country's biggest wine region, who have dedicated themselves to producing sparkling wines with a minimum of 18 months aging in the bottle and made 100% from grapes grown in their region.

Winemaker's notes

We are proud to present the third museum release of our Nautilus Cuvee Marlborough Brut NV. This incredible wine has had ten years on yeast lees before being disgorged in October 2023. This extended time, resting in the presence of the yeast lees, has led to a complex nutty aroma and a rich and generous palate that still retains freshness. This takes our premium Methode Traditionnelle wine to a whole new dimension. This wine was originally disgorged and released in 2016. A single bin was kept back on its yeast lees.

Winemaking and viticulture

Three vineyard sites are managed to produce fruit for Nautilus Cuv?e, giving us a range of flavour influences. All grapes are hand picked and whole bunch pressed with only the finest free run juice reserved. The individual base wines are fermented with a selected champagne yeast and left of lees until undergoing a full malolactic fermentation in the traditional Champenoise style. Blending typically occurs in September, and at this stage a portion of reserve wine is introduced to add complexity and character to
the Cuvee in a traditional non vintage style. Typically between 5% and 15%, the reserve wine, consisting of base wine held back from previous vintages, is used.

Ideal food match
Try with delicious fresh oysters or parmesan wafers.

Premium Cava made from carefully selected organic Xarel?lo, Macabeu, Parellada, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes, which are then worked manually to achieve the best result.

In the glass this is a lively and bright cava with balanced aromas of white fruit, citrus and green almonds. 

Cantine Riondo is a large cooperative based near Soave with over 2,000 winegrower members. This Extra Dry vintage spumante (Italian for semi sparkling), offers rich and elegant scents of ripe Golden Delicious apple, acacia and wisteria blossom. Fresh and creamy on the palate with a pleasant silky finish.

Falceri Prosecco Ros? Collection is a fresh and creamy sparkling wine, perfect as an aperitif and to accompany every party moment in style.

Commercial Description

Le Champ ? French for bubble.   A delicious bottle fermented Method? Sparkling, this latest (limited) release is from Gisborne grown Chardonnay. The single vineyard Blanc de Blancs is from the Ormond Valley. Handpicked and whole bunch pressed, with only 550 litres per tonne extraction it has been bottle fermented and stored in this bottle for 14 years prior to riddling in batches late 2022 and 2023. The wine has been re sealed under crown cap to remove the cork influence and deliver the pureness of Method? Champenoise aging. Dosage is 10 G/L

This wine possesses a very fine bubble, yeast derived savoury aromas and flavours, with a creaminess and freshness.  With touches of lemon and mushroom on the palate, the off dry sweetness is balanced with acidity.

We are delighted to bring this wine to market. Purposefully under stated on the label we hope you agree the wine talks for itself. The creamy mousse is perfect as a lunch time refresher or aperitif to enjoy with canapes, tapas, and antipasto. Best served chilled in a tall glass

Colour: Light lime pale in colour with a fine creamy bubble.

Aromas: Burnt Citrus and peachy stone fruit mushroom and fresh baked bread

Palate: Off dry, fresh, and clean flavours of lemon and nectarine. A tantalising lingering palate cleansing finish.

If you love champagne but find its rising prices hard to swallow, try Italy's answer to the world's best bubbly - with this blanc de blancs from Lombardy in north central Italy. Vezzoli is renowned as a producer for making bone dry wines and this lovely lively, dry sparkling wine is a top notch example. Yeasty and fresh, it rocks into a citrusy purity of flavour a long, beautifully balanced finish from extended ageing on lees (decomposing yeast) for 20 months.