2001 Nyetimber Première Cuvée Blanc de Blancs

Nyetimber Blanc de Blancs provides beguiling British bubbles for Yule.
Chloe Scott, Metro London, 7 December 2011

Nyetimber is by some distance the best of the English Champagne look-alikes. The Chardonnay Cuvée is relatively rare, and although the ageing regime is as for the Classic Cuvée, the style differs, with an emphasis on elegance above all, its rich buttery fruit finely entwined with a fine minerality, its texture long and satisfying, worthy of comparison with some of the better Blancs de Blancs from champagne itself...

Nyetimber's history has been colourful, its vinous ownership having passed from the American Stuart Moss, via the flamboyant pop impressario Andy Hill to the Dutch entrepreneur Eric Heerema. In the more distant past it was built by Henry VIII for Anne of Cleves, although she never actually took ownership, thanks, famously, to Holbein's pictorial exaggeration of her charms.
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)

An all Chardonnay bubbly from England's best sparkling wine producer. Nutty and complex with refreshing acidity and very fine bubbles.
(Tim Atkin MW, Top 20 Picks from Berrys' Summer Sale, www.timatkin.com, 14 July 2011)

Nyetimber, in the village of West Chiltington, now has the largest vineyard in the UK. This 100% Chardonnay has taken on lots of complexity and is quite beautifully balanced, creaminess enveloping the still-vivid acidity.
(David Williams, The Observer, 19 June 2011)

Crisp, creamy and dry with a lemon-squeeze of acidity.
Anthony Rose, The Independent, 6 August 2011