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Langham Corallian Classic Cuvée, Dorset NV

4.250000000 star rating 8 Reviews
A classic blend of 81% chardonnay, 11% pinot noir and 8% pinot meunier with 76% of the fruit from the 2019 vintage and 24% reserve wine from Langham in Dorset. The result is a complex, rich and biscuity English sparkling wine with a fine mousse and flavours of baked pears, biscuit and citrus. Langham were crowned IWSC Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year in 2020 and boast the UK’s youngest Head Winemaker, Tommy Grimshaw.
Price: £29.31 Bottle
Price: £175.86 Case of 6
In Stock
Code: SG3171

Wine characteristics

  • Sparkling Wine
  • 1 - Bone dry
  • Chardonnay
  • 75cl
  • Drinking now
  • 12% Alcohol
  • no oak influence
  • Champagne cork
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan

England

Thanks to a combination of warmer, drier summers, better understanding of soils and micro-climates, and heavy and intelligent investment in vineyards and wineries, English and Welsh wines are now better than ever.

There are now more than 500 vineyards planted totaling over 2,000 hectares, with a 75% increase in the last six years alone. Because of our northerly latitude and maritime island climate, site selection is crucial. Not surprisingly, the majority of vineyards are found in the English southern counties of Sussex, Kent, Gloucester and Hampshire though there are some found as far north as Yorkshire.

Styles of wine

English and Welsh wine producers as a whole continue to make major improvements to their wines, but it is the producers of premium sparkling wines which have received the most accolades in recent years, blazing a trail for the industry as a whole to be given the serious attention it deserves.


Sparkling wine - This is a major growth area for the UK with our climate...
Thanks to a combination of warmer, drier summers, better understanding of soils and micro-climates, and heavy and intelligent investment in vineyards and wineries, English and Welsh wines are now better than ever.

There are now more than 500 vineyards planted totaling over 2,000 hectares, with a 75% increase in the last six years alone. Because of our northerly latitude and maritime island climate, site selection is crucial. Not surprisingly, the majority of vineyards are found in the English southern counties of Sussex, Kent, Gloucester and Hampshire though there are some found as far north as Yorkshire.

Styles of wine

English and Welsh wine producers as a whole continue to make major improvements to their wines, but it is the producers of premium sparkling wines which have received the most accolades in recent years, blazing a trail for the industry as a whole to be given the serious attention it deserves.


Sparkling wine - This is a major growth area for the UK with our climate well-suited to the production of sparkling wine which accounts for 66% of total output. But it is the premium, bottle-fermented wines that have made the rest of the world sit up and take notice. Sussex and the South Downs are perfect for growing the classic mix of Champagne grapes, chardonnay, pinot noir and pinot meunier. The South Downs are actually on the same geological formation (limestone on top of a sandstone belt) that continues down through the east of France to Champagne. However, this type of soil is not everything and many vines for top bubbly made over here are grown on very different, often clay-based soils quite different from the Champagne-like calcareous formation, and our climatic conditions seem to be just as important, if not more so.

The best sparkling wines give the Champenois a good run for their money and are better than many Champagnes. We currently buy top-quality premium sparklers from Nyetimber in West Sussex, who with 400 acres are the largest producer of the style in the UK, and Ridgeview in Ditchling Common, Sussex.

Dry white - Reflecting changing tastes, wines made here are increasingly made on the drier side, helped along by warmer summers and improved techniques in vineyard and winery. Still dry white wines show a natural acidity and crispness in their youth. They tend to have a certain nettley, hedgerow freshness about them that is peculiarly English and most attractive. Such wines now represent 24% of all English wine production, Still

Rosé & red - This is style that is also increasing in popularity and one at which the UK can excel, rosé again shows well in its youth, often with attractive strawberry aromas and just a hint of sweetness to balance out the acidity. Reds are a minority as they tend to sometimes lack the necessary ripeness to allow them to show at their best unless our summer and autumn weather is particularly benign. Advances are being made here too though, as producers experiment with different varieties and vineyard sites to find which ripen best where. Front-runners are dornfelder, rondo and pinot noir but at the moment, none has impressed sufficiently and prices are rather high so we have not yet selected any to offer to members.

Wine labelling - English and Welsh wines are produced and labelled under a Quality Wine Scheme which was established in 1992. They are classified in ascending order as table wine, regional wine or quality wine.

Grape guide

Faced with a blank canvas, what vines should a grower on these islands plant? Many of the varieties planted have German origins, partly because it was originally German-trained winemakers who helped UK growers with advice and expertise. It was also felt that these varieties would have better success in such a northerly latitude and, in the 1970s, when there was a resurgence of wine growing in this country, German wines were in their heyday. It is vital to choose early-ripening varieties with good resistance to fungal disease; many of those that have had success are in fact hybrids, again developed in Germany.

Today, there is a patchwork of a multitude of different varieties found in the vineyards of England and Wales. With one or two notable exceptions, these are generally blended together to create wines with a real point of interest and difference from those found elsewhere in Europe. As many of the grapes will be unfamiliar to members and because they rarely appear on their own, so may be difficult to get to know, we provide the principal characteristics below.

More recently, and line with the success of sparkling wines on these shores, pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot meunier have been planted extensively and continue to be so.
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The Observer

The sheer quality of English sparkling wine has long since seen off the sceptics, but the pricing can still sometimes be a little ambitious. Not here: this wonderfully bright, lemony but...
The sheer quality of English sparkling wine has long since seen off the sceptics, but the pricing can still sometimes be a little ambitious. Not here: this wonderfully bright, lemony but yeasty-savoury-salty cuvée is easily as good as many champagnes that are double the price.
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David Williams

Financial Times

Price is kept below £30 because winemaker Tommy Grimshaw wants his mother to be able to afford it. Grimshaw is a fan of cult champagne producer Anselme Selosse and, like him, makes complex wine that...
Price is kept below £30 because winemaker Tommy Grimshaw wants his mother to be able to afford it. Grimshaw is a fan of cult champagne producer Anselme Selosse and, like him, makes complex wine that happens to have bubbles. This blend, called after one of the chalk strata on this south Dorset estate, is their chardonnay-dominant one ... 76% of the blend is from the 2019 vintage, 24% is older reserve wine. Very youthful but not aggressively acid at all.
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Jancis Robinson MW

FT.com

Price is kept below £30 because winemaker Tommy Grimshaw wants his mother to be able to afford it. Grimshaw is a fan of cult champagne producer Anselme Selosse and, like him, makes complex wine that...
Price is kept below £30 because winemaker Tommy Grimshaw wants his mother to be able to afford it. Grimshaw is a fan of cult champagne producer Anselme Selosse and, like him, makes complex wine that happens to have bubbles. This blend, called after one of the chalk strata on this south Dorset estate, is their chardonnay-dominant one ... 76% of the blend is from the 2019 vintage, 24% is older reserve wine. Very youthful but not aggressively acid at all.
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Jancis Robinson MW

JancisRobinson.com

Price is kept below £30 because winemaker Tommy Grimshaw wants his mother to be able to afford it. Grimshaw is a fan of cult champagne producer Anselme Selosse and, like him, makes complex wine that...
Price is kept below £30 because winemaker Tommy Grimshaw wants his mother to be able to afford it. Grimshaw is a fan of cult champagne producer Anselme Selosse and, like him, makes complex wine that happens to have bubbles. This blend, called after one of the chalk strata on this south Dorset estate, is their chardonnay-dominant one ... 76% of the blend is from the 2019 vintage, 24% is older reserve wine. Very youthful but not aggressively acid at all.
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Jancis Robinson MW

The Press Association

Langham Wine Estate's head winemaker Tommy Grimshaw cites Corallian as a 'vibrant and citrus-driven wine with a linear steely profile' that 'begs for fresh seafood,' his favourite being fresh native...
Langham Wine Estate's head winemaker Tommy Grimshaw cites Corallian as a 'vibrant and citrus-driven wine with a linear steely profile' that 'begs for fresh seafood,' his favourite being fresh native oysters.
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Sam Wylie Harris

The Times

… superb, taut, steely, biscuity chardonnay-dominant …

Jane MacQuitty

The Scotsman

It is cheaper to buy it from this retailer than from the vineyard – this is a delicious chardonnay-dominant cuvee with rich brioche nose, pearskin notes, taut acidity, minerally backbone with such...
It is cheaper to buy it from this retailer than from the vineyard – this is a delicious chardonnay-dominant cuvee with rich brioche nose, pearskin notes, taut acidity, minerally backbone with such richness and intensity for the price. It scored highly in our recent fizz tasting.
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Rose Murray Brown

Press Association

Langham wine estate was crowned Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year 2020 and head winemaker Tommy Grimshaw cites Corallian as a “vibrant and citrus driven wine with a linear steely profile”. He says this...
Langham wine estate was crowned Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year 2020 and head winemaker Tommy Grimshaw cites Corallian as a “vibrant and citrus driven wine with a linear steely profile”. He says this is rounded off very nicely with a beautiful salinity and long savoury finish. A wine that “begs for fresh seafood”, his personal favourite being fresh native oysters served with a simple vinaigrette.
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Sam Wylie Harris

The Scotsman

Star value: Based on the legendary 2018 vintage with 75% chardonnay in the cuvee with 17% reserve wine; rich biscuity nose, pear skin notes, initially sleek and minerally with rich intense fruity backbone ...
Star value: Based on the legendary 2018 vintage with 75% chardonnay in the cuvee with 17% reserve wine; rich biscuity nose, pear skin notes, initially sleek and minerally with rich intense fruity backbone – a seriously good buy at this price.
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Rose Murray Brown

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Very lucky this is now ‘my local bubbles’ but it is available across the country and not just in Dorset. Lovely green apple favours with more depth and weight than you might expect. Grown on chalk and...
Very lucky this is now ‘my local bubbles’ but it is available across the country and not just in Dorset. Lovely green apple favours with more depth and weight than you might expect. Grown on chalk and Chardonnay-heavy, the majority of the grapes were picked in 2018 so you're 83% on your way to a vintage wine too.
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