Pedro Ximenez is on old fortifying variety planted in the early part of the Barossa Valley’s grape growing history. While it can produce sometimes very simple flavours when young, Tom found the old remaining plants He works with today are just delicious. The fruit works very well in making slightly oxidative styles of wine.

With his eponymous label, Tom Shobbrook shook up wine in this country in the nicest possible way, but he certainly shook it up good. As a natural pioneer, he’s never been one to jam dogma down anyone’s throat, instead he’d just look you straight at you with his smiling blue eyes and tell you exactly what he thought. And he’d listen and take on board what you thought, too. Working with extended skin contact on white varieties, super-early picking for reds and a philosophy of nothing added and nothing taken away, the Shobbrook wines became the cornerstone of natural wine in this country. Shobbrook was a Young Gun finalist in 2014.