Stony Bank is a Marlborough label on New Zealand's South Island, drawing this Riesling from the region's Southern Valleys. There the cooler, clay-and-gravel sub-region tempers Marlborough's generous fruit with firm minerality and structure, the river gravels lending drive and a stony backbone. The 2023 vintage in Marlborough followed a wet, cyclone-affected summer that made for a challenging, carefully managed harvest, though well-sited Riesling retained the crisp acidity and off-dry balance this wine shows. Precise vineyard selection in the Southern Valleys underpins the wine's fruit character and its capacity to age.

Grapes are pressed gently and cool-fermented to preserve Riesling's aromatic purity and racy acidity. The wine is made in an off-dry style, retaining a touch of residual sugar that is balanced by dry, crisp acidity and drying, gravel-derived minerality on the finish. It is a wine built to drink well young but with the structure for ten or more years of cellaring. Alcohol is 12.5%.