Gutter&StarsGutter&Stars All Hype Bacchus 2025

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 was picked by hand and gently whole-bunch pressed. The juice was racked into barrel for fermentation using non-Saccharomyces and ‘neutral’ Champagne yeasts.

Fermentation took 15 days, then the wine was racked off its gross less and aged in neutral oak barrels (228 Litre, ex-Burgundy) in a ‘fumé’ style. It matured on the fine lees for five months with no battonage.

The wine was bottled on 18th March 2026.

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 over the past three years 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. The winery is housed in the mill’s basement. It’s the perfect spot in some ways (a 15°C ambient temperature, a good drainage system, bags of character) and challenging in others (low ceiling height, single phase power, narrow-ish door).