2022 Flint Vineyard, Bacchus, England
£18.99, flintvineyard.com
It’s funny how things go. I called in a set of newly released samples from Ben Witchell, Flint’s winemaker,; £24.75, ). It is a stunningly pretty wine made from 11 different grape varieties, including rondo, for its pinky colour. This is the finest Charmat-style sparkling wine in the UK, and it looks and tastes fantastic, with a bone dry, tense, floral and forest fruit cocktail of flavours. But this wine is not the lead in this week’s column, because a pair of bacchus wines completely seduced me.
