2023 GOD COMPLEX

TRY ME IF YOU LOVE: Orange Wine

ABV: 10.5%

GRAPES: 100% Bacchus

TASTING NOTES: God Complex is a skin-contact Bacchus orange wine. After 23 days on skins, the wine has developed delicate layers of pepper and nettle alongside bright tropical notes of peach and citrus. Fresh and textured, it’s a distinctive yet approachable expression of this enigmatic grape variety.

PAIRS WITH: Asian cuisine, vegetarian dishes asparagus risotto and stuffed bell peppers with rice and herbs, peppery charcuterie.

Titch Hill is the project of Alex Tristram and Sam Bunker, who met while studying winemaking at Plumpton in 2017. The vines are planted on a farm that has been in Alex's family for generations, with his uncle taking a keen interest in environmental restoration in the early 1980s, repairing the damage done across the UK by post-war industrial farming.

Finishing Plumpton, Alex returned home to begin the winemaking project, with Sam - who grew up nearby - soon joined him as his collaborator. Alex & Sam look after the vines, themselves part of a wider, hollistic, organism that also includes livestock, arable wheat & barley, with sheep grazing in the vineyards through winter.

On the high chalk of the South Downs, the coastal influence is immediately apparent - they are perhaps one of the closest vineyards to the sea in the UK - and work in the winery is as minimal as possible to allow the fruit to speak for itself, they are strictly no additions.