English White Wines
Gutter&Stars Age of Anxiety Ortega 2025
Delicate characters of peach tea and sweet shop fruit; savoury & sumptuous
This waxy and floral Ortega is made from grapes grown at Yew Tree Vineyard in Oxfordshire. Delicate characters peach tea, candied fruit and umami combine to create a savoury and sumptuous wine.
Single-site Ortega was picked by hand and whole-bunch pressed. The juice was settled in stainless steel before fermentation in old French oak barrels using non-Saccharomyces and Burgundian yeasts. Just 560 bottles were produced.
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.
