Double Barrelled: New, Rare Releases from Ham Street
We are delighted to make available two limited releases from Lucie & Jules at Ham Street: the first white releases from their vines on the edge of the Romney Marshes, Kent.
Both are single barrel cuvées from the brilliant 2022 vintage, each an experiment in highlighting their favourite characteristics of the varieties.
Bacchus 2022 was de-stemmed and macerated for 9 days in stainless steel, pressed to an old 228-litre Burgundy barrel to continue fermentation and ageing for 10 months. The Chardonnay Bacchus 2022 is majority press-direct Chardonnay, with 45 litres of the 9-day macerated Bacchus topping up the barrel. Fermentation and ageing continued in a 228-litre old Burgundy barrel for 10 months, with some lees stirring during that time.
As with all of the Ham Street releases so far, these have been produced in collaboration with Nicola & Daniel at Offbeat, bottled according to the lunar calendar, unfined, unfiltered and with no additions.
