Sugrue The Trouble With Dreams, Sugrue South Downs 2015

Tons of toastiness on the nose, baked-apple fruit, loads of flavour persistence and intensity here – wow, this is an absolute treasure. Long, profound finish. One of England's best. (RH)

Full bottle 1,621 g. 60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir from vines planted on South Downs chalk in 2006 (some of the fruit is from the Mount Harry Vineyard near Lewes in East Sussex and some from Storrington Priory Vineyard in West Sussex). Aged in old oak barrels and stainless steel. Dosage 6 g/l.
Golden colour. Melted-buttery nose. Grilled grapefruit slides into sorrel-leaf lemons wrapped in warm challah sweetness. Sherbet-dipped sharpness of the spine, but a rich shimmer of fruit in the breadth of the wine. A wine that has a cello-and-violin thrum that vibrates through your bones like miniscule musical shock waves, acidity etched into each note like a tiny maker's mark. Long, direct, piercing finish. (TC)