HEITZ CELLAR OWNER BUYS STONY HILL

Gaylon Lawrence, the owner of Heitz, and Carlton McCoy MS, Heitz’s CEO, acquired the Spring Mountain property in late December last year for an undisclosed sum.

This is not the first Napa property the pair have acquired recently, having bought Burgess Cellars in September and Haynes Vineyard in 2019. Lawrence bought Heitz Cellar in 2018.

The pair have also appointed Jaimee Motley as winemaker and Lau...

Stony Hill is a boutique, family-owned winery, rooted in its original vision of creating great wines in small lots from our own hillside vineyards. Today our forty acres of vines produce on average 3,500 cases of wine per year. Our winemaking style is distinctly non-interventionist, allowing the intensely flavored fruit from our rocky, hillside soils to determine the character of the wine. Known primarily for our Chardonnay, we describe it as ...

The McCreas have been proprietors of Stony Hill since the summer of 1943 when Eleanor and Fred McCrea purchased the property. They were the visionaries who created a beautiful wine estate out of an old goat ranch and in so doing were pioneers in the rebirth of the Napa Valley wine industry following Prohibition and World War II. Peter, Fred and Eleanor’s son, grew up working in the vineyard and winery as a teenager, and he shares his parents’ ...

When Fred and Eleanor McCrea fell in love with and bought a 160-acre goat ranch on the northeast slope of Spring Mountain in 1943, little did they envision a “Stony Hill Vineyard…visitors by appointment only” sign at the bend in the road. Yet sixty years later, the sign hangs there as a testament to their passionate dedication to producing the quality wines that Stony Hill still proudly offers.

The property sits on the western slope of the ...