Some Young Punks

The young punks at the center of this operation wanted to do something that hadn't been done before in Australia: make exceptional wine with small-estate charm. 

The winemakers believe that each wine, each vintage, and each label is a moment that will never come again - a winemaker should only ever promise to be consistently good, never just consistent. Each time they make a wine it may be the last wine they make - and if it isn’t worthy of being the last, then it will never wear the Some Young Punks name. 

According to these guys, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover. These labels are as bright and bold as the wines they clothe. Fresh classics printed in glorious Punk-nicolor.

Jen Gardner has a PhD and a long line of important publications led astray by a love of The Wild Wine. A sad case of a good kid 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.

Colin McBryde 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.

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

Approach all three with caution - especially if they are anywhere near a bottle of wine. An opinion is only worth something when strongly held and these people have a helluva grip