Gutter&StarsGutter&Stars Avalon 2023

This premium white wine blends Chardonnay from Whitewolfe Vineyard in Kent and a dash of spicy Pinot Gris from Bromley Brook Vineyard in Essex. Expect ripe red apple, white peach and nectarine notes, honeyed richness and precise acidity.

After blending the wine matured in barrel for a further three months before bottling. Avalon 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.