Winery Chapel DownFlint Dry
White wine
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Chardonnay, the Pinot blanc and the Reichensteiner.
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or poultry.
The Flint Dry of the Winery Chapel Down is in the top 60 of wines of United Kingdom and in the top 10 of wines of Kent.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Flint Dry of Winery Chapel Down in the region of England often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Flint Dry
Pairings that work perfectly with Flint Dry
Original food and wine pairings with Flint Dry
The Flint Dry of Winery Chapel Down matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of cajun jumbalaya rice, sea bass wrapped in salt crust or shrimp curry and coconut (thailand).
Details and technical informations about Winery Chapel Down's Flint Dry.
Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Flint Dry from Winery Chapel Down are 2011, 2018, 2015, 2014 and 2012.
Informations about the Winery Chapel Down
The Winery Chapel Down is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 73 wines for sale in the of Kent to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Kent
Southeastern English county, ~25% of the British vineyard, chalky North Downs soils comparable to Champagne, temperate maritime climate. Signature metodo classico sparklers: Chardonnay-Pinot Noir-Pinot Meunier blend with fine bubbles, pale robe, notes of green apple, citrus, brioche, hazelnut and chalky touch, lively palate — modern English reference. Bacchus as taut floral white (grapefruit, elderflower, boxwood). Chapel Down, Gusbourne flagships.
The wine region of England
Quality renaissance of English wine, signature in traditional-method sparklers. On chalk soils identical to Champagne's (South-East), fine, taut bubbles with signature notes of green apple, lemon, white flowers, brioche and chalk, the vivid acidity of a cool climate. Based on Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier. Still wines a minority: aromatic Bacchus (elderflower, cut grass — the English identity), fresh Pinot Noir.
The word of the wine: Skinny
Thin and lacking in substance in the mouth.
