Sparkling wine, also colloquially known as ‘fizz’ or ‘bubbly’, is the first of our wine styles, although technically it is a wine type that has many different styles. It can vary just as much as still wines.

Sparkling wines can be:

• Made from a wide variety of different grape varieties, both white and red
• White, rosé or red in colour
• Made from a single year or a blend of different vintages
• Made with different pressures in the bottle, and described as lightly, semi– and fully sparkling
• Made with a range of different alcohol levels, but low to moderate levels are usually favoured
• Made to be simple or complex. The more complex styles tend to rely on long periods of ageing on lees.