SHOP WORLD-CLASS SPARKLING WINE MADE IN SUSSEX
Rathfinny English Sparkling wines offer a taste of luxury, perfect for celebrations and gifting. Vouchers cannot be used online. Please contact our Cellar Door team to place an online order or redeem your voucher in our Cellar Door shop.
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Traditional Method Sparkling Wine
At Rathfinny, we have handcrafted four vintage, low-intervention, Traditional Method sparkling wine – a Blanc de Noirs, Blanc de Blancs, Rosé and Classic Cuvée. Despite their different styles, each wine is an expression of our Sussex location, boasting a low sugar content, autolytic notes from maturation on lees and a notable presence of our house-style Pinot Noir within the blend (except the Chardonnay-based Blanc de Blancs).
All of our sparkling wines, crafted in Sussex, are available to order online for delivery in the UK.
“All our wines are vintage wines, and they express the characteristics of the year. We’re fortunate to be on a single-site and we can control our yields to ensure that we’re only picking fruit with a perfect balance of flavours, sugars and acidity to produce our English sparkling wine.” Sarah Driver, Co-Founder
Sustainable English Sparkling Wine
Sustainability is at the heart of Rathfinny, passionately led by our founder, Sarah Driver. From our hands-on, chemical-free viticulture practices and low-intervention winemaking philosophy, to choosing to hire a local workforce and investing in conservation work on our Estate; we always consider our wider impact on the environment, community, customers and our team. As of March 2023, we are proud to be a B Corp.
A few points that are good to know when you order from us:
- Our winery is self-sufficient in water and powered by solar energy.
- The process from planting vines to bottling and cellaring the wines is all carried out on our single-site estate.
- We use recyclable packaging made from recycled material.
- B Corp certification means we care as much about the quality of our wines as we do about our supply chain, carbon footprint, staff wellbeing and the wider environment.
- All our Sussex Sparkling wines have achieved Sussex PDO certification.
The Benefits of our Sussex Vineyard
We define terroir as a combination of the weather, soil and the people. In other words, the environment in which the grapes are grown. The shallow but fertile, clay loam soils over chalk are free draining and perfect for growing sparkling wine grapes. Chalk provides a ready source of water for the vines during the drier summer months, the warm semi-continental climate and long summer days ensure perfect ripening, and the proximity to the sea helps mitigate frost risk in late spring months, a major problem in cooler climate vineyards in Northern Europe.
Order from our Cellar to your Door
The benefit of purchasing from us directly means your wine arrive at your door in perfect condition as they have been carefully stored in our temperature-controlled cellar. For birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and other celebrations, choose a gift box for extra special presentation. Delivery is complimentary on orders over £100, or visit us and collect your wine free of charge and take a look around the Vineyard whilst you’re here.
FAQs
Rathfinny is sold in some of the finest restaurants, hotels and bars around the UK and overseas. You’ll often find us in Michelin Star restaurants as well as independent bottle shops. There is likely to be a stockist in your region and if we aren’t yet available at your local bottle shop or favourite restaurant, please let us know or perhaps suggest they order some Sussex Sparkling!
At this moment in time, we can only deliver to addresses in the UK. Please get in touch with our Cellar Door team (cellardoor@rathfinnyestate.com) for a shipping quote to your country or we are happy to recommend stockists if you are based in a country we export to.
Of course. Many of our customers choose to send our English Sparkling wines as a gift. Add a personalised note during the order process and we’ll include it in the packaging.
Yes! You can purchase a gift voucher between £10-£1,000. Find out more about our gift vouchers here: https://rathfinnyestate.com/wines/gift-vouchers/
We offer tours and tastings all year round, allowing you to learn about the winemaking process and taste our portfolio of English Sparkling wines. Find out more here: https://rathfinnyestate.com/tour/
Our portfolio of wines appeal to a variety of tastes. If you’re stuck, we would recommend starting with the vintage Classic Cuvée as this is a wonderful expression of our ‘house-style’ English sparkling wine. It is versatile enough to pair with a variety of foods and perfectly suitable to drink on its own.
All our wines have a notably refined and elegant style, owing to the low sugar content which serves to enhance the natural flavours of the fruit. Each vintage is different but we don’t tend to add more than 6g/l (maximum) to our English sparkling wines. All our wines are brut.
Store Rathfinny wines in a dark, area of your home at room temperature. Avoid any direct sunlight which could cause ‘light strike’ and ruin the aroma and taste of the wine. The benefit of buying directly for our Cellar Door and online shop is that you can rest assured all our wines have been perfectly stored in our temperature-controlled cellar and sent directly to you in the best condition.