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.