Redheads Studio

1987 witnessed the start of something called "Flying Winemakers"...top young Aussie winemakers flying over to help with the European vintages. Shock! Horror! But...the new ideas, the energy, optimism and talent really benefitted Europe...and Europe gave the Aussies a lot of ideas in return. Like Red Heads, for example.

See...the "flyers" got frustrated when they flew home to dull jobs in the mega wineries of the ho ho! "rationalized" Australian wine industry. They envied their French and Italian mates who made just the wines they wanted to make.

With no money to set up their own wineries, they just made a few barrels in garages. Fantastic wines came out of tin sheds! Wine shippers in Britain and the US loved the stuff. They got backing and set up Red Heads in an old bar that they bought on the road out of McLaren Vale to Barossa. Red Heads was the name of the bar.

They kept the name and this is now where the keenest winemakers come after work to "do their thing."