Meet Some Young Punks, three maverick wine-makers who not only disregard convention, they openly taunt it. The punks consist of Col McBryde (Australia’s Young Gun Winemaker of the Year), Jen Gardner (self-confessed nerdy yeast expert) and Nic Bourke (self-confessed insidious miscreant).

‘We blame the booze. The whiff and the swill did us in and all that was left to do was to make more. In many ways the wines that weren’t worth the pull on the cork caused this as much as the wines that we will never have the pleasure of decorking again. This is Passion, a monster bigger than the three of us that leads us to soapbox, grandstand and sometimes pass out on the couch.’

Col McBryde is as unimpressed by flash-in-the-pan medal-winners that are short on provenance as he is by being hide-bound to the Old World, and carves his own niche. Beyond wines that speak for themselves, a sense of humour allows this ironically quietly-spoken but earnest bunch to market themselves outrageously and bring a fresh approach to packaging. We’ll drink to that.

Battle Island Shiraz Cabernet 2009 (€14.99, or €13.49 per bottle when you buy 6)

This is a wine of “The Furious Knives of Wine”, produced and packaged by Some Young Punks. Sourced from vineyards in Padthaway and Langhorne Creek, South Australia. A furious battle, the stench of red, is the Battle over? Or has it just begun?

Passion Has Red Lips Cabernet Shiraz 2009 (€17.99, or €16.19 per bottle when you buy 6)

This label is from the original Pulp Fiction novel ‘Sin on Wheels’. Turn, splash and savour; Unfiltered confessions follow as the sin glows red & passionate like those red lips. A rich gobful of lip-smacking, sensuously structured McLaren Cabernet and Clare Shiraz.

Stephen Tanzer: 90 points

The Squids Fist Sangiovese Shiraz 2009 (€21.00, or €18.90 per bottle when you buy 6)

“A battle in the deep as two foes collide! The Squids Fist lands hard against the crude steel of the submersible; the force buckles, kinks and crushes it as an old rivalry comes to a head 750ml under the sea! Once again the TNT team find themselves submerged in high drama. How will they survive both the wrath of the might Cephalopod and the diabolical plans of the crazed engineer?” The black attack of McLaren Vale Shiraz is cleverly enveloped in Barossa-sourced Sangiovese’s savoury limbs in this triumphantly loose-limbed libation.

Stephen Tanzer: 90 points

ALLOCATION WINES: Some Young Punks are allocation wines, wines where demand substantially exceeds availability of supply due to limited production or rarity of vintage. Rather than mark-up to reflect this rarity, we simply reserve the right to exclude this wine from headline price promotions.