We love a grape with a story, and today it's about Refosco - usually found in northeastern Italy near the Slovenian border. Refosco makes lovely, bright, and tangy red wines with this beautifully plummy energy to it. In this red wine from Little Reddie, Pat Underwood has married Refosco and Nebbiolo from Heathcote (Australia) to make a beautiful, chillable, light red. It tastes of blackberries and black cherries with a little spicy lift. It's rare to call a red fresh, but this is fresh!

It was coffee that first brought Pat Underwood into wine. Working behind the bar in a Castlemaine venue, he was inspired to learn more about coffee, beer and eventually wine thanks to the influence of Jarad Curwood of Chapter Wine. Jarad then allowed Pat to pick some fruit from his vineyard in 2012 and voila, Pat was a winemaker! There was only a small amount of juice, so he was using a cut-down barrel to make his wine and came up with Little Reddie as a nod to that first mini-vessel and the joy of catching Redfin (an introduced fish that is popular in country Vic and known as a Reddie). Since then, Pat has done vintage all over the world, including a particular stint with the famed Olek Bondonio in Barbaresco that led Pat to fall in love with the Nebbiolo grape. Now back in Australia, Pat makes a fab range of enigmatic and charismatic minimal intervention wines using grapes from vineyards across Central Victoria, with Nebbiolo a proud focal point.