Gutter&StarsGutter&Stars Age of Anxiety Ortega 2025

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.