Stoney Rise

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Joe and Lou Holyman established Stoney Rise on the Gravelly Beach property in the Tamar Valley in 2004, converting a farming property into one of Tasmania's most admired small wineries. The property's north-facing slopes and free-draining dolerite soils provide ideal conditions for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and the Tamar Valley's cooling maritime influence from Bass Strait ensures a long, gentle ripening season that builds natural acidity and flavour complexity. Joe's winemaking philosophy is one of restraint and honesty — whole bunch inclusion in the Pinot Noir ferments, wild yeast throughout, gentle basket pressing, and maturation in old French oak that flavours without overwhelming. The wines speak unmistakably of Tasmania: fragrant, precise, deeply flavoured and with a linear natural acidity that makes them extraordinary food wines. The Holyman Pinot Noir, the estate's flagship, shows what Tasmanian Pinot can achieve when farming is meticulous and intervention is minimal.