Exton Park Wine
Exton Park is a modern vineyard covering an expansive 55 acres on the sweeping hills of Hampshire. The terroir mirrors other famous champagne vineyards just across the Channel, benefiting from a similar cool yet warm climate. The vineyard focuses heavily on the environment and sustainability, featuring an eco-friendly cellar room with solar panels providing temperature control. With sustainability being so important, patience is part of the philosophy at Exton Park. With decades of development and testing, this approach ensures excellence in every bottle, year after year, offering a level of quality and consistency rarely seen in the industry.
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Exton Park Wines
Exton Park produces a range of sparkling wines, the most popular being Exton Park Brut Reserve. Other products offer different experiences, such as Blanc de Noirs and Rose, utilising the estate's different grape varieties.
The flagship of Exton Park is the excellent Exton Park Brut Reserve, containing the oldest reserve wine. Brut blends Chardonnay and Pinot Noir together, creating a structured combination of an average of 32 skilfully selected reserve wines. Gold in colour, the Brut has a bright, lemony character with indications of honey and passion fruit, with an intense backbone and a lengthy finish. This wine is made from 60% Pinot Noir grape to 40% Chardonnay grape and is the signature win at Exton Park.
Offering a different type of wine, the 23 Rose is a reflection of the synergy between the vineyard and the way the wine is blended. This wine provides an elegant and refreshing taste with a delicate and dry rose that reveals rich fruit tastes in the mouth with notes of white peach and rose petals. A blend of 23 reserves and a grape variety of Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, this wine shows the variety of wines that Exton Park has to offer.
Exton Park Heritage
The park was originally planted in 2003 on the South Downs, which is Hampshire's national park, overlooking Exton Village. Only 12 acres were planted; different rootstocks were used to assess how it affected the final product. Gradually, a clear picture was envisioned of which best suited the terroir.
However, in 2009, the second site was planted, and local businessman Malcolm Isaac subsequently bought the vineyard. He understood the terroir of the local land, and after initially selling fruit to nearby Coates and Seely, he was ready to produce his own wine two years later, with the ambition of creating the best sparkling wine in the country. Investing in a new winery with two Bucher presses, allowed for the harvest to be brought in as fast as possible due to the unpredictable English weather and also enabled different wines, such as rose and white wines, to be made at the same time.