25% stainless steel

The unique presence of the wine so captivated David that he first bottled it as a single block selection in 1975

A wine of place and of attitude

causing stress to the vines and resulting in sparse canopies and loose clusters of unusually small

Its style is what you would expect from Stony Hill: restrained

2015 Joseph Swan, Young Kent Chardonnay 2011 25% stainless steelWhen Ritchie Vineyard was first planted it was very much old school with 12 between rows. For years Kent looked at what he viewed as wasted space that could have and should have been planted to grapes. Not wanting to remove and replant perfectly good grapes, he came up with an unusual solution: plant another row between the existing rows. The problem was that 6 row width would entail buying all new equipment as the spacing would be too tight for his