Whether you’re the drink-now type, or the self-confessed collector, you’re going to like what these punks have been getting up to down in South Australia. Introduced here, ‘Some Young Punks’ have managed to produce exceptional wine with small estate charm, adding their own personality to the brand, as well as telling a pretty mad story which involves an investigator trying the solve the mystery of the wine bottle suicides.

Confused…?

The ethos is simple, self-centred and just a little arrogant – We make charismatic wines that are true to what we think ‘wine’ should be about. If someone doesn’t like the way we do it, then they had better put the bottle down.

Col McBryde: Col was always a troublemaker, fleeing wineries in New Zealand and the Americas, he now operates out of Australia’s Clare Valley. He is truly an incorrigible winemaker, understood only by the yeast that helped him nab his PhD from Adelaide University.

Gen Gardner: In the case of Jen Gardner, we have a straight-A student with a PhD and a long line of important publications led astray by the love of The Wild Wine. A sad case of a good kind mixed up with the wrong type of wine, now she rarely even inoculates her ferments, preferring instead to let them run wild as she now does.

Nic Bourke: A truly insidious miscreant, Nic Bourke does whatever it takes to make the best wine. Those that stand in his way soon realise that winemaking is serious work except when it isn’t. McLaren Vale plays host to his hijinx but one region is never enough, and no variety is too big to be brought back down to size by a big enough crusher.