Harrow and Hope Blanc de Noirs 2019
English Sparkling Wine
England, England
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| Style: Sparkling | Packaging: OCC |
| ABV: 12.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2023 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2034 |
| Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir | |
Critic scores
93 VM, 93 IWC, 95 GM, 95 RR, 94 JG,
Critic reviews
"The 2019 Brut Blanc de Noirs, a pure Buckinghamshire-grown Pinot Noir, was fermented in 500-liter barrels and spent three years on lees. An initial touch of kefir dissipates to reveal subtle creaminess and smoke. The poised palate features a fine gentle mousse, showcasing toasted hazelnut notes of oak while remaining pristinely juicy with tart red apple. Smokiness clings to the red apple purity and tartness, lending sonority to the wine, which finishes clean-cut and pure. Lovely! Disgorged: June 2023."
Anne Krebiehl MW, February 2025, Vinous.com
"Full bottle 1,605 g. 100% Pinot Noir from Henry and Kaye Laithwaite's 6.5-ha vineyard in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The Pinot block is on the brow of the hill with thinner chalkier soils at the bottom and thicker clay and gravel soils at the top. Low-intervention winemaking, 80% fermented using natural wild yeast in a selection of different-sized oak barrels. 36 months sur lattes. TA 7.6 g/l, dosage 5.6 g/l. Bottled 15 June 2020, disgorged 21 June 2023. Glittering minerality, a wine of shards. A wine that makes you look up, expecting stalactites, something cold, powerful and still, and instead finding something quite other – a gold-light-bathed cathedral. There is nothing austere about this wine, despite its buttressed, cavernous power. It's rich to the brink of opulence, but holds the line. It is floodlit with fruit and flavour of quince, pâté brisée, Jamaican tangelo, loquat, and this gorgeous tide-line of saltiness left behind as it ebbs on the finish. And the bubbles like the finest of tight-work lace. Like their BdB, conceivably underpriced."
Tamlyn Currin, July 2025, JancisRobinson.com
"Dominant toasty brioche with recurrent and quince pie, lovely balance with English orchard fruit"
IWC Silver 2025, IWC.com
Anne Krebiehl MW, February 2025, Vinous.com
"Full bottle 1,605 g. 100% Pinot Noir from Henry and Kaye Laithwaite's 6.5-ha vineyard in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The Pinot block is on the brow of the hill with thinner chalkier soils at the bottom and thicker clay and gravel soils at the top. Low-intervention winemaking, 80% fermented using natural wild yeast in a selection of different-sized oak barrels. 36 months sur lattes. TA 7.6 g/l, dosage 5.6 g/l. Bottled 15 June 2020, disgorged 21 June 2023. Glittering minerality, a wine of shards. A wine that makes you look up, expecting stalactites, something cold, powerful and still, and instead finding something quite other – a gold-light-bathed cathedral. There is nothing austere about this wine, despite its buttressed, cavernous power. It's rich to the brink of opulence, but holds the line. It is floodlit with fruit and flavour of quince, pâté brisée, Jamaican tangelo, loquat, and this gorgeous tide-line of saltiness left behind as it ebbs on the finish. And the bubbles like the finest of tight-work lace. Like their BdB, conceivably underpriced."
Tamlyn Currin, July 2025, JancisRobinson.com
"Dominant toasty brioche with recurrent and quince pie, lovely balance with English orchard fruit"
IWC Silver 2025, IWC.com