Fine Sparkling Trio

This standout, serious, creamy-textured sparkler comes from northern California and has a wonderful lemon and brioche character. Given Roederer’s involvement, it’sperhaps no surprise how close this tastes to Champagne, but it offers a little more sun-ripened fruit and generosity.

The follow-on vintage to the IWSC Sparkling Wine of the Year, the 2017 is cooler in profile with intense citrus pith, grapefruit and chalky minerality on the palate, with an exceptionally fine mousse and taut structure to the palate. Delicious now as an aperitif or alongside smoked salmon, Nyetimber's blanc de blancs ages incredibly well and gains further depth and savoury complexity with age.

A thrilling, precise South African sparkling. Ageing on its yeast lees for more than five years brings a gorgeous, toasted hazelnut complexity to the aromas and flavours, and creates an extremely fine mousse. Generous and rich with flavours of white peach, apricot and lemon curd, balanced with vibrant acidity. Pieter Ferreira is known across the globe as ‘Mr Bubbles’ for his unwavering dedication to the pursuit of thrilling, precise, traditional-method sparkling wine. After decades as cellarmaster at Graham Beck, his so-called retirement project is to make his own small-batch Cap Classique under his own name, with his wife Ann.