2020 GB Wine Awards

CARR HEAD sparkling Seyval Blanc from the 2018 harvest was awarded a Bronze medal at the prestigious annual GB wine Challenge. Competing against the UK’s finest sparkling wines, CARRHEAD has again demonstrated that great wines can be produced from vineyards in the north of England. TV presenter Oz Clarke hosted and assisted the judging panel.

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2019 Wine Challenge

Three CARRHEAD wines from the 2018 harvest won Bronze medals at the annual Mercian Vineyards Association wine challenge. All wines are blind tasted by professional wine tasters, and the Merican region covers an area from the border with Scotland all the way down to London.

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2018 Harvest

After a warm and dry start to the 2018 spring, “flowering” was very effective and this set up the potential for high bunch volumes. The summer was kind to us with long periods of dry and un-seasonally consistently high ambient and soil temperatures. Grape sugar levels and acids were good and resulting volumes of grapes at harvest time were unprecedented. This will probably be the best year we see for quite some time. So still whites, red and rosé will be available mid 2019 from the 2018 harvest, and sparkling wines will be available early 2020.

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2018 Wine Awards

At the 2018 annual Mercian Vineyards Association wine challenge the 2017 CARRHEAD Rosé was awarded the Welland Valley trophy for best Rosé, the Richardson trophy for the best northern region wine, and a SILVER medal. Sales of this wine were exceptional and we quickly ran out!

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