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A lovely rich English red with delicious cherry notes and a soft lick of French oak
Pattingham Vineyard ‘Rudge Heath’ is a Medium bodied red wine from Wolverhampton, England. It’s made with 100% Divico. 12% abv.
✓ Suitable for Vegans.
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Started from a love of food and wine in the company of friends and family (sounds good, doesn’t it?), Pattingham Vineyards has quickly become known as one of the UK’s leading still wine producers. Divico is a very special hybrid grape, producing wines with similar qualities to Gamay and Pinot Noir but with better disease resistance.
This is a fuller style English red with lots of cherry, plum, and cranberry notes, and leads to a lovely soft spiced finish from a small time in French oak.
so explor com this is your final wine from your box this week so as you know we’ve been celebrating English wine um the English wine week as it’s English wine week in June and we’re finishing back up in Staffordshire with pattingham um and this is the rudge heath divos rudge Heath is the where the vineyard is off R Lan um and we have Divo so Divo is a really unusual red and if you’re a bit of a skeptic of English Reds maybe you think too light too acidic um not really matching up for kind of new p and so on I think this is one that potentially really change that opinion so Divo is a Swiss uh grape so related to things like game and stuff like that um but what it really is is cool climate color so it produces lots of deep color so it uh ripens late ripens early and it has a very very long um ripening period a very long growing period so it really really maximizes all of the Sun that it can get um without avoiding the frost so it produces naturally quite dark it’s quite a thick skin grape um again very small berries it really is about kind of avoiding any unsavory rot and things like that um so it keeps the air flowing around it but they then take the divico uh and then put it in Oak for uh 12 months as well so that really deepens the color and when you open this I think you’ll be quite surprised by the color and the intensity you get from Divo um but it really is uh I think a a wine that we’re going to see more and more um lots of producers are starting to plant this as we said it will give color and weight an interest to English Reds um so if you’re not going to go down pinoir and we’re getting some fantastic pinoir this is one start looking out for for English Reds um it has deep red fruits so black current um very almost kind of dark cherry so black cherry rather than red cherry you might get in the PIR um lots of sort of blueberry lots of those kind of dark red fruit notes um alongside a little bit of chocolate from the tan uh from the oak um and vanilla so a really kind of interesting complex wine um it’s hard to compare it to anything if you’ve never tried it before it’s one that has a really unique flavor I would say you might get something like a light Northern Italian neav or something like that but it is a really really interesting grape and I think as with always with um pagam lovely labels with art produced by local artists um but a lovely small Vineyard producing some really interesting wines and we’re very pleased to bring it to you so uh hopefully this will change the Skeptics out there for English red who think it’s too light and acid so go with Divo and this is your English red for your box in June and that rounds out the box so hopefully we’ve shown you some some new grapes uh some new Styles some lot of new producers um and we have converted maybe some of you to being English wine fans um so enjoy the Box this month and we’ll be back with something interesting from maybe Holiday Island next month in July cheers