Welcome to another fascinating wine from Little Reddie. Pat Underwood makes this from Shiraz grapes picked from the Dash Farms vineyard in the Bendigo region. But this is an ocean away from anything Shiraz-y! Instead, it's a beautiful, bronze-edged sparkle of lively strawberry and pink grapefruit flavour. The style here is super clean and refreshing, yet gentle and energetic in a way that feels entirely natural and clean.

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.