2024 STATUES & ORNAMENTS

TRY ME IF YOU LOVE: Skin contact / Orange wine

ABV: 10.0%

GRAPES: 100% Schonburger

TASTING NOTES: Fragrant and floral with hints of fresh spring flowers and rose petals, and on the palate it’s soft and textural with pear and apple notes and a subtle dry edge from the lees, finishing clean, balanced, and easy to drink.

PAIRS WITH: Seafood, charcuterie, soft and creamy cheeses... Also a good pizza wine

SERVE ME: Chilled, pop in the fridge for a couple of hours

Titch Hill is the project of Alex Tristram and Sam Bunker, who met while studying winemaking at Plumpton in 2017. The vines are planted on a farm that has been in Alex's family for generations, with his uncle taking a keen interest in environmental restoration in the early 1980s, repairing the damage done across the UK by post-war industrial farming.

Finishing Plumpton, Alex returned home to begin the winemaking project, with Sam - who grew up nearby - soon joined him as his collaborator. Alex & Sam look after the vines, themselves part of a wider, hollistic, organism that also includes livestock, arable wheat & barley, with sheep grazing in the vineyards through winter.

On the high chalk of the South Downs, the coastal influence is immediately apparent - they are perhaps one of the closest vineyards to the sea in the UK - and work in the winery is as minimal as possible to allow the fruit to speak for itself, they are strictly no additions.