Real Wine People

Ryan O Meara is a winemaker, grapegrower, surfer, father and beer drinker who started Express Winemakers, based in Denmark, in the Great Southern of Western Australia

His vineyard sites stretch across all sub-regions in the Great Southern, with Ryan dry-farming all blocks without the use of synthetic chemicals. All wild-ferment in the winery and minimal movement all help Ryan to express his sites

Mike Bennie is one of the most influential wine-writers in the world today. Co-founder of Rootstock Sydney, Wine writer for many wine publications including Gourmet Traveller, Editor of Winefront, co-owner of P & V Wine Cellars in Newtown & Brian Wine

Tom Shobbrook is a beautiful human, boundary-pusher, winemaker, father, husband and owner of Shobbrook wines. As one part of the 'Natural Selection Theory' collective, he is partly responsible for a paradigm shift in the Australian Wine industry.

Alex Shulkin and Galit Shachaf hail from Ashton, in the Adelaide Hills, and are the lovely people behind The Other Right wines. Alex was born in Russia, and landed in Australia via Israel 32 years later. His day job is a wine scientist with the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) and is possibly the only wine scientist in the world that makes natural wine

Iwo Jakimowicz along with his wife Sarah Morris are the great people behind Si Vintners. An amazing BD winery and vineyard in the deep South of Margaret River. Iwo and Sarah also own several vineyards in Aragon, Spain which they travel too each year and make wine also.