Extra Brut Agrafe Twenty Nineteen
A special Library Release - only 6 bottles available.
When we released it in March 2024, Extra Brut Agrafe 2019 marked a first for English winemaking. Rather than ageing under crown cap – the traditional closure used during bottle maturation – these bottles have been ageing under natural cork from the moment they were bottled.
We held back a handful of Extra Brut Agrafe 2019 in our cellars, allowing the wine additional time to evolve under cork and develop even greater depth and savoury complexity.
This library release wine is only available to Gusbourne members. Please sign into your members’ account in order to purchase this wine. Find out more about membership here.
This 2019 limited is now sold out.
The 2020 vintage of the Gusbourne Agrafe sparkling wine is now available to buy. You can also register to be amongst the first to know when similar Library wines are released by joining the waitlist.
TASTING NOTE
On the nose, there’s delicate notes of lemon, lime peel and green apple, alongside toasted almond and pastry. The palate showcases citrus and orchard fruit, with bright, fresh fruit and floral notes too, leading to apple tart and shortbread. This is elegant, complex and poised, with a streak of freshness and minerality. Fresh fish and seafood works really well – why not try langoustines, seared scallops or golden beetroot tart.
it stole my heart
This is exactly the kind of offbeat wine that makes my heart beat a little faster and makes me smile. It has a grooved dimension that is quite unique in this room of diverse, iconic, distinctive English sparkling wines….I tasted this in such a rush and yet it stole my heart. I would love to taste this exciting wine again. 17.5/20 points, tasted 10 June 2024
Extra Brut Agrafe Twenty Nineteen
Analysis
Grape Variety:
70% Chardonnay
30% Pinot Noir
Alcohol:
12%
Titratable Acidity:
9.6g/l
Residual Sugar:
4.5g/l
pH:
2.96
Factsheets:
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2019Winemaking
Processing:
Whole bunch pressed and naturally settled for 24-36 hours.
Fermentation:
10 days under 20 degrees celsius using specialist sparkling wine yeast. Fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks, with a small percentage fermented in old oak barrels for complexity.
Bottling Date:
June 2020.
Lees Ageing:
38 months under specialised 'Tirage cork'.
