Tidebrook Six Petals Rosé, Sussex

Description

Tidebrook Six Petals Rosé is an English rosé wine produced in East Sussex by Gary and Kathy Jordan. It is a blend of Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier made with a low ABV of 10.5% and it is styled upon the rosé wines of the Coteaux Champenois. It is bottled as a Sussex Protected Designation of Origin (PDO).  

Gary and Kathy Jordan took over Jordan Wines in Stellenbosch from Gary’s parents in 1993. They have since built Jordan Wines into a world-renowned wine estate and their flagship wines like Cobbler’s Hill and Nine Yards Chardonnay are highly sought after. Not content with conquering the wine world from South Africa, they have always had an eye on the UK. Since 2009 they have collaborated with Neleen Strauss in a London restaurant High Timber.

More recently, in 2017, the Jordans acquired an estate within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty “as part of their “retirement plan”. The Mousehall Estate is located on the northern outskirts of Mayfield in East Sussex. An old barn was converted into a distillery and winery in 2021 and they have been producing a Mousehall Sussex Dry Gin since then. Gary and Kathy’s daughter Christy Jordan is the head distiller.

Tidebrook Wines is the name of the English wines that the Jordan’s produces. The estate is planted with the sparkling wine triumvirate of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier (no doubt an English Sparkling Wine will follow). The first wines that were launched in the summer of 2024 were three still wines, all from the 2022 vintage. The wines are Staddle Stone Chardonnay, a barrel-fermented and matured Chardonnay, Six Petals Rosé, a dry, lower alcohol (10.5%), made in a Coteaux Champenois style and The Tipping Point Pinot Noir, matured for 12 months in Burgundian oak. The wines are produced in very small quantities with the same incredible attention to detail the Jordan’s apply to their South African wines.

Grapes for the Tidebrook Six Petals Rosé were hand-harvested in the second week of October. After arriving at the winery whole grape clusters were gently pressed in the Bucher X-Pro press and the juice was left to settle. The wine was fermented in stainless steel tanks. The wine was aged on the lees for 12 months to add richness to the hedgerow fruit flavours. 

Tidebrook Six Petals Rosé is named after the six-petal mark found on Mousehall’s medieval buildings which are known as hexafoils or ‘daisy wheels’ and were thought to be a good luck symbol to protect against evil.