It’s Bottoms Up for Yorkshire’s Rosé
Yorkshire’s first sparkling Rosé wine, Leventhorpe, has been produced at The Leventhorpe Winery in Leeds, Yorkshire’s longest-established commercial vineyard.
Print13 March 2013
While it may seem strange, wine-growing in Yorkshire is nothing new.
The Cistercians of Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds and the Benedictines at St Mary’s Abbey in York had been making wine successfully up to the 16th Century.
This 2010 ‘salmon blush’ was made using Seyval Blanc, Triomphe and Pinot Noir grapes explained winemaker George Bowden.
George and wife Janet re-introduced commercial winegrowing to Yorkshire by establishing the five acre vineyard in 1986.
Yorkshire Brut – made in the traditional method, Yorkshire’s first sparkling Rosé wine.
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