The HillCrest Winery

Carrying through from the vineyards, it is our belief that the best fruit demands attentiveness and selection, but minimal handling. Many techniques we use today including hand harvesting and meticulous selection, basket pressing, and patented concrete fermentors, reach back to the past to select techniques that while not as efficient in the modern world sense, allow us to show the complexity and distinctive character of our great sites. In addition extensive ageing in European cooperage, that many times is twice as long as most modern wines, allows our wines to show  greater integration and complexity, the kind that is usually associated with the finest classic wines of their type in the world. These tools and traditional techniques have been manifest not only by our rich legacy and passion, but by our working and teaching wine professionally in over 17 countries in the last 25 years.