
OUR VINEYARD
We are a small-scale low-intervention vineyard on our fourth-generation sheep farm. Our name is lifted from a distinctive outcrop of exposed late Silurian rock on our farm called Whinyard Rocks - a Site of Special Scientific Interest located on Bache Hill in the Radnor Forest - which overlooks the vineyard.
In 2017 we planted 800 vines by hand with friends and another 800 in spring 2021. We chose three white varieties - solaris, phoenix and ortega - and two red - rondo and regent - for their flavour profiles and plucky ability to tolerate the challenging environment of our valley's altitude and cool Welsh climate.
Our grapes ferment on indigenous yeasts. We adopt a low-intervention approach with no added sulphur, fining or filtering to allow for a truer expression of our grapes and to make wines that reflect the Welsh hillside they're grown on.
Our Col Fondo and Pet Nat wines are due to be released in Summer 2022.
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grape Varieties
Ortega, Phoenix, Regent, Rondo, Solaris
FIRST plantingS
2017
Number of vines
2500
SOIL TYPE
Free-draining loam
elevation
250m / 820ft above sea level
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our wines
Col Fondo
A sparkling red made with 100% Rondo grapes made in the Italian ancestral method
Pet Nat
A lightly sparkling skin contact orange wine made with Ortega and Solaris grapes
coming summer 2022
coming Late 2022 / Early 2023
Still Red
A still red wine made with Rondo and Regent
Traditional Method
A sparkling wine made with Phoenix grapes


