Blog 001 - Vintage update 2025
It has been hot. Extremely hot. But what does that mean for the vineyard and the vintage of 2025? Well, it is still early days – but we are all very excited. The vineyard team are doing a brilliant job at ensuring we have the best fruit to work when harvest kicks off. It is going to be an early vintage; harvest is currently predicted to start the first week in September.
Orange Solaris update
Last week Andy Kershaw, Denbies Cellar Master made the decision to take the Wild Orange Solaris 2024 off its skins after being in tank for almost ten months. The resulting wine is lovely, true to the grapes and layers of enticing fruit on the palate. It is currently being bottled and labelled with an interesting twist on the existing Orange Solaris label. It will be on sale at the end of August; this is an ultra-limited release with less than 500 bottles available.
Here’s a little more information on the Wild Orange Solaris. Orange Solaris, yet slightly different. Picked over a few hours on a sunny October morning in 2024, perfect Solaris grapes were then crushed and left to macerate on their skins. It went wild. Wildly fermenting over four weeks, and on skins for almost ten months, this wine is the truest expression of English winemaking. Proudly unfined and unfiltered – and made without any winemaking additions, including sulphur – this wine will show natural sediment in the bottle, which adds texture, depth and complexity.
Wine Awards
Every year, Denbies enter a carefully select few of our wines into prestigious international wine competitions as a benchmark in the English wine industry.
2025 medals
Cubitt Blanc de Noir 2015
IWSC* Silver
IWC Bronze
Decanter Bronze
Orange Solaris 2022
IWC Silver
Decanter Silver
Whitedowns NV
Sommelier Wine Awards Silver
*IWSC – International Wine & Spirit competition
