2006 represents the first release of the white wine partner - Sandstone. The goal was to create a long-lived, lower alcohol, un-wooded wine from a blend of white grapes. The plan was to release the wine after a certain amount of secondary bottle-age character had developed. With their research pointing to Sauvignon blanc being particularly successful on sandstone soils, they aimed to have this as the lead grape, structurally and aromatically, with other partners contributing to the age-worthiness and palate depth and structure without competing with the aromatics