Low yields & astute viticulture combined with Nebbiolo’s late ripening make for grapes of wonderful balance in this iconic vineyard in the Pyrenees. The resultant wines are deep, concentrated & complex with firm tannins whilst still being very approachable in their youth, and this Nebbiolo is certainly that - filled with bright red fruit and a swathe of tannin on the tail.

Two music tragics - Nathan Reeves and David Chatfield - decide that their industry of choice is letting them down (or perhaps the other way around) and decide to follow a nobler path....a more vinous path. Nathan worked vintages in Margaret River and California, then settled in the Yarra Valley. David, a former label manager and promoter, did his formative work at Yarra icons Oakridge and Giant Steps, along the way bumping into Nathan a few times. They bonded over music but things really got serious when they started discussing making their own wine one day. Come 2012 and the mad idea of Out of Step Wine Co is born. Turns out its not so mad after all. Their approach is simple, although the wines themselves are anything but. Making small batches from single sites selected for their ability to yield grapes of outstanding quality, & eschewing a lot of conventional techniques that seem to make for rather pedestrian booze, they believe it is of critical importance that what they produce genuinely communicates the variety, vineyard, season and combination thereof, as well as being delicious. As the guys say themselves, to be great it must be real, expressive & honest. They seem to have the balance pretty bang on so far....