{"title":"Wiston","description":"\u003cp\u003eWiston is one of the estates that made the case for English sparkling wine as a serious rival to Champagne, and it does it on the same chalk. The vines grow on the South Downs in West Sussex, a few miles from the coast, on the Cretaceous chalk that also runs under Champagne.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Goring family has owned Wiston since 1743, but vines are a recent arrival. Pip Goring, who grew up in South Africa's Franschhoek, lobbied for a vineyard for some thirty years before the first Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier went in in 2006. Dermot Sugrue, the founding winemaker, set up the cellar in a converted turkey shed with an old wooden Coquard basket press bought from Champagne and secondhand barrels; Marcus Rayner-Ward, who worked alongside him from 2018, now runs it, with his wife Megan as assistant winemaker. The next generation of Gorings, Rick and Kirsty, manage the estate and farm without synthetic chemicals, though without certification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe style is all tension and chalky salinity, with real depth from long lees aging and, for the non-vintage Brut, a stock of reserve wines reaching back to the estate's first harvests. Look for the Brut and Rosé for everyday pleasure and the vintage cuvées for the cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wiston-brut-nv-750ml","title":"Wiston, English Sparkling Brut, NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe same Cretaceous chalk seam that runs beneath Champagne surfaces again on the South Downs, about ten miles from the English Channel — and Wiston's Brut is one of the more convincing arguments that England's version deserves to sit beside it. The Goring family has held the West Sussex estate since 1743, but the vines went in only in 2006, when Pip Goring finally got her 16-acre south-facing planting of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier on flint-strewn chalk; a Chardonnay-only block followed in 2017. Every variety is whole-bunch pressed in a Coquard basket press imported from France in 2008 — the first in Britain — then fermented in steel and given eight months on the lees before bottling. The Brut is 35% Chardonnay, 35% Pinot Noir and 30% Meunier, with 20–30% reserve wine from the estate's earliest vintages, three to five years on lees in bottle, and a restrained 8 g\/L dosage. Dermot Sugrue made the wines here through 2022; Marcus and Megan Rayner-Ward have the cellar now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skurnik [MSK]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46213351800889,"sku":"NYC-MSK-`UK-WIS-01-NV`-071726-2","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Wiston-English-Sparkling-Brut-NV-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1784386889"},{"product_id":"wiston-brut-rose-nv-750ml","title":"Wiston, English Sparkling Brut Rose, NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eBone-dry English sparkling rosé coloured the Champagne way — a measure of still Pinot red wine from the previous harvest blended in at bottling, with no skin maceration at all. It's 40% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay and 30% Pinot Meunier, with 20–30% reserve wine in the blend, around three years on lees in bottle and a restrained 8 g\/L dosage. The fruit comes off flint-strewn chalk on the South Downs in West Sussex, about ten miles from the sea — the same Cretaceous chalk seam that runs beneath Champagne. The Goring family has held Wiston since 1743, but the vines only went in in 2006, and everything is whole-bunch pressed in a Coquard basket press brought over from France in 2008, the first in Britain. Dermot Sugrue built the house style through 2022; Marcus and Megan Rayner-Ward run the cellar now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skurnik [MSK]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46213351833657,"sku":"NYC-MSK-`UK-WIS-02-NV`-071726-3","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Wiston-English-Sparkling-Brut-Rose-NV-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1784386890"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/wiston.oembed","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}