What KT did: A Clare love affair
Kerri Thompson has always been drawn to dots. Various colours, sizes and arrangements speckle the labels of Wines by KT, evoking order and randomness at once. Her wines don’t want for clarity and coherence, but premeditation generally takes a back seat to impulse and instinct in the KT universe. She was just 17 when she embarked on her winemaking degree with little more than a vague notion that art, travel, science and a whiff of the exotic might converge on the far shore.
The things she cares about are the pinpoints in that world—a scattering of mentors, talented peers, cherished grape-growers and the like—and the picture that emerges is of a confidently visionary winemaker inspired and nourished by her Clare Valley home.
Dream Weaver: An Adelaide Hills pioneer
“It’s just so grand to be there,” says Geoff Weaver of his slice of Adelaide Hills heaven. “It’s beautiful to be engaged in what’s essentially an agricultural, horticultural and artistic pursuit in this glorious countryside,” he says
Theresa Breuer, the rebel’s daughter
Theresa Breuer was just 20 when her father Bernhard - perhaps Germany’s doughtiest campaigner for its dry Riesling - died suddenly in 2004. But she barely blinked before continuing the Rheingau estate’s trajectory as one of the finest in the world.
TWR’s Anna Flowerday plays it cool
Anna Flowerday of TWR says “cool” a lot. This passionate organic wine-grower and champion of regenerative viticulture shows that working hard is dead cool when you do what you love and love what you grow.