About Stony Hill Vineyard
The Fred and Eleanor McCrea's 1943 Spring Mountain estate — one of Napa Valley's oldest family Chardonnay programs and a defining influence on Califor
Stony Hill Vineyard is one of the most historically distinctive and stylistically influential wine estates in the Napa Valley.
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Stony Hill VineyardStony Hill Vineyard is one of the most historically distinctive and stylistically influential wine estates in the Napa Valley.
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Fred and EleanorFred and Eleanor McCrea — a San Francisco advertising executive and his wife who purchased the Spring Mountain hillside property in 1943 as a summer retreat and began planting Chardonnay in 1947 — created what would become one of the most consistently produced and most historically important California Chardonnay programs in the state's wine history.
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The Stony HillThe Stony Hill style — mineral, austere, unoaked or very lightly oaked, with natural acidity and structural elegance that allows the wines to age for 10–20 years in the bottle — was established before the rich, oaky, buttery California Chardonnay idiom became the dominant commercial style, and has been maintained through eight decades of Spring Mountain hillside production by three generations of the McCrea family.
"The Fred and Eleanor McCrea's 1943 Spring Mountain estate — one of Napa Valley's oldest family Chardonnay programs and a"
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Featured Wines
Chardonnay
Spring Mountain Chardonnay
Spring Mountain / Stony Hill Estate
The most historically continuous and stylistically consistent California Chardonnay estate expression — Stony Hill Spring Mountain Chardonnay in the mineral, austere, age-worthy style that Fred McCrea established in 1947 and three generations of the McCrea family have maintained without stylistic compromise through eight decades of western Napa Valley ridge hillside production.
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★★★★☆
Semillon
Semillon
Spring Mountain / Stony Hill Estate
Stony Hill's most historically unusual white — Spring Mountain Semillon in the California white wine tradition that predates the oaked-Chardonnay era, showing what the mineral, structural Spring Mountain volcanic terrain produces in this Bordeaux blanc variety when the McCrea family's pre-commercial-trend winemaking philosophy maintains its historical integrity.
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★★★★☆
Riesling
Riesling
Spring Mountain / Stony Hill Estate
Stony Hill's most German-tradition-influenced white — Spring Mountain Riesling from the volcanic western Napa Valley ridge in the dry, mineral, food-first style that Fred McCrea's original 1940s California white wine vision established and three generations of the McCrea family have maintained as one of the Napa Valley's most historically continuous dry Riesling programs.
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★★★★☆
Gewurztraminer
Gewurztraminer
Spring Mountain / Stony Hill Estate
Stony Hill's most aromatically distinctive and pre-commercial-trend expression — Spring Mountain Gewurztraminer from the most Alsatian-tradition-influenced and historically unusual white variety in the McCrea family's eight-decade Spring Mountain hillside estate program, showing the spiced, mineral, food-first character of the Napa Valley's most austere and historically principled white wine estate.
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Book on Tock →Eighty-Year Chardonnay Appointment
Appointment with Napa Valley's most historically continuous Chardonnay program (1947) — Spring Mountain Chardonnay in the mineral, austere, age-worthy style that three generations of the McCrea family have maintained for eight decades without stylistic compromise. Stony Hill's Semillon, Riesling, and Gewurztraminer complete the most historically principled white wine appointment in the western Napa Valley ridge corridor.
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