Ancre Hill Blanc de Blancs
Guide price: £37.15
Recorded vintages: 2018
Ancre Hill’s Blanc de Blancs spends more than four years on the lees and is finished without dosage for a very dry style.
2004
Monmouth
Richard and Joy Morris established Ancre Hill Estates near Monmouth in 2004. The estate developed around biodynamic farming and gained full Demeter accreditation in 2014.
Its range includes traditional-method sparkling wines, pét-nats and still wines. Fermentation with naturally occurring yeasts and extended ageing are central to the winemaking approach.
The estate has nine hectares of vines on south-facing slopes around Monmouth. Mudstone, sandstone and limestone occur across the sites, with sandier ground at Newton Court. Biodynamic practices include plant preparations, composting and mixed planting. The straw-bale winery has a living roof and ecological wastewater treatment pools.
WINEMAKER
Richard Morris and Jean du Plessis share responsibility for Ancre Hill’s wines. They use naturally occurring yeasts and a combination of concrete eggs, oak and stainless steel. Extended lees ageing and minimal intervention allow differences between the harvests to remain apparent in the wines.
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Guide price: £37.15
Recorded vintages: 2018
Ancre Hill’s Blanc de Blancs spends more than four years on the lees and is finished without dosage for a very dry style.
Guide price: £37.15
Recorded vintages: 2018
Ancre Hill’s Blanc de Noirs is aged for four years and nine months on the lees, with no dosage added at disgorgement.
Guide price: £29.99
A Welsh orange wine with nectarine, tangerine and savoury herbal flavours. Whole bunches undergo 30–50 days of carbonic maceration, followed by at least ten months on the lees in oak and stainless steel. Bottled without fining or filtration.
Guide price: £18.50
Recorded vintages: 2024
A lightly sparkling pink wine bottled before fermentation is complete, allowing the bubbles to develop naturally in the bottle.
Guide price: £24.99
A lightly sparkling Welsh red made from Triomphe, with sour cherry, blackberry and herbal notes. Fermentation finishes in the bottle.
Guide price: £24.60
Recorded vintages: 2018
A Welsh sparkling wine from Ancre Hill, aged for five years on the lees, with citrus and apple flavours.
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Ancre Hill Estates is not currently open to visitors and no longer operates a cellar door. Its wines remain available through selected Welsh and UK stockists and online retailers; check the official stockists page for current availability.
Other visitor facility
The vineyard is closed to visitors and no longer operates a cellar door.
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