Whinyard Rocks, Rosé Col Fondo, New Radnor, Wales

Who - Suzan & James, Whinyard Rock
Where - New Radnor, Powys, Wales 
What - Sparkling Wine / Col Fondo - Solaris, Rondo 
When - 2024
How - Regenerative, each variety fermented separately: Solaris crushed and pressed; Rondo left on the skins for three days before pressing, both undergo wild fermentation with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel, blended and bottled by hand by gravity in the spring, Col Fondo method of re-fermentation in bottle without disgorgement, unfined, unfiltered, no added sulphites, vegan

Whinyard Rocks is two people trying to make wine on a hillside in Wales.

James and Susan left behind London life, working as a scientist and at a sustainable food & drink startup respectively, for very rural Powys, after James had the wild idea of planting a vineyard on a slightly lower lying field on the family sheep farm. And just to make things even harder they followed through on their values and decided to make the wines as naturally as possible, farming regeneratively and making the wines with no additions, no fining or filtration, and using the naturally occurring yeasts for fermentation.