The Astrolabe Wrekin Chenin Blanc is made from grapes grown on a loess clay slope. hand pick the grapes to give a delicacy to the phenolics. The classic style for the Wrekin Chenin Blanc is partially barrel fermented with wild yeast for complexity, with the remainder in stainless steel to preserve the fruit flavours. All juice is free-run to retain purity. The 2024 vintage is the first year that this wine has been made in Astrolabes new Small Town Winery. For this inaugural vintage, Simon went with a slight departure in style, and this Chenin blanc was fermented and aged in a new large-format ovoid Austrian oak foudre, where it went through natural malolactic fermentation as it aged on yeast lees for 12 months. It was bottled unfined and unfiltered.