Lyme Bay Shoreline 2021

Description

Lyme Bay Shoreline 2021 is so complex and no wonder it it. Shoreline is an English white wine produced from six cool climate grape varieties – Bacchus, Reichensteiner, Seyval Blanc, Solaris, Ortega, Pinot Noir – from various vineyards in Devon, Oxfordshire and Essex. Not only that… the wine produced from each of these grapes was fermented separately with different strains of yeast and at different temperatures. No oak was used to produce Lyme Bay Shoreline 2021 but additional complexity comes from the blending and from ageing the wine on its lees. Stainless steel fermentation vessels ensure the wine is predominantly fresh and fruity – lemons & limes, ripe apples and hints of pineapple. Though technically on the borderline between dry and off-dry, the wine has lovely fresh acidity which gives it an overall feel of a crisp, dry wine. It’s lovely & smooth and only 11.5% ABV. No wonder it’s Lyme Bay’s best-selling English wine.

Lyme Bay Winery calls Lyme Bay Shoreline 2021 a fresh, complex quintessentially English dry white wine. Quintessentially English because, whilst the grape varieties used to produce it are not English in origin, they have long been grown in England and with increasing success. Only ten years ago, English still wines were a little too sweet and floral for most people who preferred to stick to the now famous English sparkling wines like Lyme Bay Sparkling Rosé. However the English wine industry has come on in leaps and bounds and there are now some outstanding still wines like this and its sister wine Lyme Bay Chardonnay.