Beare Green Winery DIO Bacchus 2023Beare Green is the new project (2022 was the first vintage) of wine educators and owners of Streatham Wine House bar Jimmy Smith and Bethany Paterson and winemaker Sam Hill. Based in Beare Green, Surrey they source grapes from a number of trusted growers in the south of England for their range of wines. In the cellar they are strictly minimal intervention, fermenting without adding yeast, sugar, enzymes or other adjuncts. Their wines are very low in

This is very precise wine making

The nose is rich in hazelnut

before finishing clean and dry with a lasting apple note

After one year's ageing

gingerbread

Up up and away

Since 1993

The oldest Port producer

varietal Cab that wears its oak lightly as a structural veil rather than anything more monstrous

chalky finish

Aged for 12 years in Bodega la Emperatriz Eugenia in Jerez de la Frontera

now capable of producing exceptionally fine