{"product_id":"the-trouble-with-dreams-collectors-case","title":"THE TROUBLE WITH DREAMS COLLECTOR'S CASE","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eTwenty years ago, I planted my first vineyard for a monastic order of Catholic priests at Storrington Priory – a south-facing, chalky-greensand site at the foot of the South Downs.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSo successful was the first crop that birds ate all the fruit, dashing any hopes of making wine in 2008. While thoroughly pissed off, I was undeterred, but at least I had a name for my first release.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIt is remarkable how much the English wine landscape, not to mention my life as a winemaker, has changed over the past two decades, and yet \u003cem\u003eThe Trouble With Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e has remained something of a constant.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTwo-thirds Chardonnay to one-third Pinot Noir, harvested as late as we dare, fermented in old oak barrels, and spending at least three years on lees, often four or five, before release. There’s a pleasing simplicity, even if each vintage brings something unique.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFirst-time tasters are often surprised that \u003cem\u003eThe Trouble With Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e is not showy. It is chiselled, taut, tense – for good reason. I want it to burst with the sort of freshness that makes English fruit, of all kinds, some of the best in the world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI also want it to age. That’s when the real show begins.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAna and I found it rather emotional tasting through our library cellar, deliberating over which wines to re-release to mark 20 years of Sugrue South Downs. This collector's case brings together six of our favourite vintages of \u003cem\u003eThe Trouble With Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e and includes bottles now long sold out on the market: 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, and MV (2021).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI hope the next 20 years are as much of an adventure as the last. I still clearly remember soaking the roots of those young Chardonnay and Pinot vines in a trench filled with water under the gaze of the monastery tower, before planting all 4,000 of them in one day in May 2006.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI must look up which date it actually was, and raise a glass to my old friend Fr Paul McMahon. \"Here’s to the next twenty,\" I'm sure he'd say.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Six Bottles","offer_id":55349885141377,"sku":"TWD-20ANN-6","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/9566\/2612\/files\/TWD_Collector_s_Case.jpg?v=1771500323","url":"https:\/\/www.sugruesouthdowns.com\/products\/the-trouble-with-dreams-collectors-case","provider":"Sugrue South Downs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}