Clones in the Whitewolfe Vineyard
For centuries, grape growers have carefully selected vines that display appealing characteristics and used their cuttings to propagate new vineyards (known as ‘massal selection’). Each cutting creates a new clone from the mother vine, in our case, Chardonnay. This means that today, we have a broad range of Chardonnay clonal variations to work with, each offering something different to the final wine.
Hand-picking our grapes at exactly the right moment gives us the very best harvest to make our outstanding wines.
Our Expertise
Ensuring every bottle tastes as great as the last
The vineyard is planted with a patchwork of Chardonnay clones (seven in total), each offering a slightly different interpretation of its unique terroir, represented by the ‘KC’ range.
Luke’s expert judgment of when to prune is an art form. And hand-picking our grapes at exactly the right moment gives us the very best harvest to make our outstanding wines
Kent wine
Changing the way the world thinks about English wine
The cool climate growing conditions of the UK vary greatly from vintage to vintage, and as such, so does the performance of each clone.
At Whitewolfe, our extensive winemaking and growing experience has allowed us to adapt our growing practices seasonally. As a result, we are consistently able to achieve the ripening potential of our clones and achieve the best quality grapes at harvest.
Our approach provides us with a complex assembly of blending components, like a colour palette to paint with, that allows us to produce world-class wine.
