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Copper Rivet Distillery
In 2016, Copper Rivet began production in an old pumphouse in Medway, Kent. It is a meeting of expertise and energy between the Russell family’s passion for their home county, and Head Distiller Abhi Banik’s encyclopaedic knowledge of fermentation and distillation. Copper Rivet are making huge waves in the industry, producing a wonderfully fruitforward distillate.
Copper Rivet’s stills nestle centrally within a wonderfully hulking Victorian brick cuboid that previously acted as pumphouse for the adjacent dry-dock, and lost its towering chimney during the second World War. With local Kentish grain arriving at one end, fermentation, distillation and maturation taking place on-site, and with a mischievous spirit of experimentation, whenever I visit I can feel the very best of old and new. Pro-tip, visit the in house restaurant and enjoy many gustatorial delights – not least their house-made “marmite butter” using leftovers from the fermentation, served with spent-grain bread from the very same source
When is a wine ready to drink?
We provide drinking windows for all our wines. Alongside the drinking windows there is a bottle icon and a maturity stage. Bear in mind that the best time to drink a wine does also depend on your taste.
Not ready
These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.
Ready - youthful
These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.
Ready - at best
These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.
Ready - mature
These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.
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Description
Impeccably distilled at the architecturally fascinating Copper Rivet distillery in Kent, this grain vodka shows all the crisp cleanliness one could want from the style. With enlivening notes of sweet cereals, it is eminently sippable and thus, a first-rate stage upon which to build various cocktails. Producing a vodka this good is a real statement of intent for a fledgling distillery.
Rob Whitehead, Spirits Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd (Jan 2023)
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