English White Wines
Gutter&Stars All Hype Bacchus 2025
Bold apple and grapefruit notes and a smidge of tropical fruit; green tea and herby mid-palate with a long textured finish
A vibrant and fruit-forward Bacchus with bold apple and grapefruit notes and a smidge of tropical fruit. Savour the green tea and herby mid-palate and the long textured finish.
Single-site Bacchus from Lion’s Walk Vineyard in Essex was picked by hand and gently whole-bunch pressed. The juice was racked into barrel for fermentation then aged in neutral oak barrels in a ‘fumé’ style. It matured on the fine lees for five months with no battonage.
All Hype is bottled unfined and unfiltered making it vegan friendly. Due to this hands-off approach the wine may throw a delicate, harmless sediment in the bottle.
Gutter&Stars’ winemaker and founder Chris Wilson had wanted to start his own winemaking business for some time, and searched for the perfect site for a small-scale urban winery in Cambridge, the city he’s lived in with his family since 2013. In 2020 a golden opportunity came up to house the winery in the basement of a Grade II listed windmill less than a mile from the city centre, and work began turning this octagonal cave into the city’s first winemaking facility.
