Woodfine Wines, Sparkling Pinot Noir Rose, 2023

The land and the vineyard are undergoing conversion to organic status. They use regenerative agricultural methods such as grazing animals, chickens, wildflower meadows and bees to support natural management of the land, thereby improving organic carbon burial in the soil, eliminating herbicides and artificial nutrition, whilst also minimising pesticides and use of heavy machinery. Prunings, manure and compost are added back to land to create a circular system within the farm minimising import and export of materials. They reduce, reuse and recycle wherever possible, including bottles and upcycling of packaging. To date, They have never used herbicide, despite guidance to do so. They are converting the entire footprint of our farm, including the vineyard, to organic status certified by the Soil Association, with zero advisories to date from inspections: they go beyond all expectations of land management. They use biodynamic compost and spray preparations, including horn silica, equisetum, dandelion, yarrow, organic essential oils (thyme and eucalyptus), organic whey and more. The aspiration is to make natural wine, with zero additions of sulphites, yeast, sugar, fining agents or chemicals of any kind.