Gutter&StarsGutter&Stars Star Guitar Sauvignon Blanc 2025

Sauvignon Blanc grown at Creeksea Place Barns on the bank of the River Crouch in Essex was fermented and aged in old French oak to create a wine brimming with aromas of ripe tropical fruit, citrus-spiked acidity and jalapeño-flecked spice. Bold and refreshing on the palate with tree fruit, gooseberry and passion fruit notes.

Single-site Sauvignon Blanc was picked by hand and gently whole-bunch pressed. The juice was settled in stainless steel before fermentation in old French oak barrels using Burgundian yeasts and ageing in neutral oak barrels on the fine lees for six months with no battonage.

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.