The Birth of Bubbles...

Today marks the birth of our second vintage of Mitchell Harris 'SABRE' sparkling wine. The pickers have arrived to bring in our pinot noir today. We have found some beautiful fruit at a small vineyard near Kyneton in the Macedon region. Things for Vintage 2010 look fantastic at this stage: beautiful fruit, ripened gently by the generally mild conditions.

As our fruit comes in, it will be taken a short distance over to our contract winery near Romsey, where it will be pressed and processed. From there the pressings and cuvée make the trip back up to the Pyrenees, where we can then continue the fermentation, then the fun of blending with our chardonnay base.

We'll then tirage the wine into bottles, where it will spend approximately 3 years "on lees", gathering the rich taste and texture that we love to drink.

But today, it's just the first step on the voyage...