Hambledon-made 2018s side by side in due course.įrom the 2020 vintage, as well as becoming grower-made wines, Black Chalk will have a spanking new winery, built on site in the shell of an old barn. It’d be interesting to taste the Hattingley- and He worked with a parcel of 2018 fruit from Hambledon Vineyards, making his twoīlack Chalk wines there. What about the 2019 vintage, by which time Leadley Vineyard near-neighbours include Waitrose’s Leckford Estate, and the Hampshire vineyard of Sussex-based Nyetimber. Leadley said “frost is a risk, but we avoid the wind Though low elevation is regarded as keyįor UK vineyards, being so far north, the vineyards vary between about 20 andĦ0 metres above sea level. Now that Leadley leases the vineyards for BlackĬhalk, the Cottonworth label looks to be consigned to history, as the Liddellįamily move on to other projects. Sparklers between 20, saying he’d “have very much liked the fruit inĢ015” for Black Chalk. Indeed Leadley made the Cottonworth-labelled Of Cottonworth, the Liddell family, between 20, all to the trilogy North of Stockbridge, near the river Test. Leased the 12 hectares of vineyards at the Cottonworth vineyard, a few miles What changes, with the 2020 vintage, is that BlackĬhalk will move from a negociant-type label, to a grower-type label. Our own vines?” Vineyard at Hazel Down setting winter sun. Hampshire fruit, the next step, he said “was – shouldn’t we be looking after Hampshire, having identified his preference for the flavour profile of fruitĪnd having made the initial decision to focus on For Black Chalk, Leadley bought fruit from growers in Tasting the results of the fruit, brought in from different parts of theĬountry for the Hattingley wines, and as part of the contract winemaking services Leadley was familiar with tasting the fruit, The 2015 to the 2018 vintages were all made at Hattingley,Īlongside his then day job. Leaving after seven years at the end of 2018, to develop full-time the label heĮstablished in 2015. Leadley was the winemaker at Hattingley Valley Wines, In the short five years since the launch vintage of 2015, things are and will be evolving apace for winemaker and joint owner Jacob Leadley. And 2020 will see the label becoming an estate-grown producer, in a shiny new winery to boot. Black Chalk is a new kid on the Hampshire block.
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