off-arc
The null case
Chalk Bacchus
Bacchus · 2023 · 75cl
Straw, not red — elderflower, grapefruit, chalk.
- Kind
- white
- Production
- 3,400 bottles
- Pairing
- Shellfish, goat’s cheese, the garden in June.
Our white, from Bacchus grown on the lower chalk. It sits on this page as the estate’s null case: a white wine carries no anthocyanins, so it never enters the red arc the rest of the range is measured on. Its colour holds at straw and does not walk toward brick or tawny with age.
The exception that proves the law — and, on a warm afternoon, the wine most of our visitors take home.
This wine is the estate’s null case: a white carries no anthocyanins, so its colour holds at straw and never travels the red arc the rest of the range is measured on.