Perpetual – Chardonnay 1st Edition (SOLD OUT – 2nd Edition Coming June 2026)

£94.95

WineGB Awards 2025 Supreme Champion

First edition; 2017, 2018, 2019. The culmination of and the introduction to head winemaker Tommy Grimshaw’s vision of vinifying Chardonnay with minimal intervention from our Dorset vineyards.  The very best parcels of Chardonnay from each harvest, blended year on year, adding layer on layer of intensity & complexity.

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Weight 2 kg
Tasting Notes

Intense, Heady, Storied

Perpetual is deep, nuanced, with honeyed apricots, fromage frais & clementines on the nose, coalescing with savoury dried mushrooms & camembert. It is full and heady, redolent of hawthorn buds and caramelised butternut squash. Time and oxygen nurture florality: fennel pollen & honeysuckle. After a few more minutes in the glass, a faint lapsang souchong smokiness emerges, as well as elegant geranium.

On the palate, driving acidity stands up in the mouth, shouldering Meyer lemon and caramel. Warming stem ginger, umami and sea salt envelop the taste buds; blackcurrant leaf brings herbaceous freshness. Toasted walnut skin bitterness merges with delicate wood smoke and a sweetly aromatic myrrh quality that endures with length.

Each year since and ahead, we continue to add the best parcels of Chardonnay each year to the blend, building depth and intensity to the wine in foudre as each vintage passes. Subsequent annual bottlings will gain richness from age, whilst each new wine added maintains freshness in the blend.

In Tommy’s words;

‘I want the perpetual cuvee to outlive me, I believe that with each year the wine will become more expressive of Chardonnay on our Dorset terroir, by removing vintage variation and building more and more character’

We hope that it’s a wine that will incite opinion, heated conversations and a feeling that hard work has been done and bold risks have been taken in order to achieve something truly special.