Roll up for one of the most intense white wines you'll try this year. Sourced from the Johansen Vineyard in Tumbarumba, this is a wildly involving, intensely mineral and super fresh Chardonnay that is incredibly complex and just a little wild. It smells of vanilla, oyster shells, porridge and grilled nuts, and it tastes of peachy fruit. It's funky and yeasty, in a mode that is both thick and powerful, but super crisp to finish with a stoniness that is next level. A next-level wine, it is too!

Pequod was the whaling ship that featured prominently in the story of Moby Dick. It's also the enigmatic cult wine label of Lerida Estate winemaker Paul Williams. Famously made in tiny quantities (less than 100 dozen per wine), these wines are almost impossible to track down, with no website, back labels that have no information, and nothing but cryptic clues on Paul's Instagram page. Even the wine names often don't make sense, although the artwork (which is typically excellent) is worth grabbing a bottle alone. And the wines? Well, they're special. Paul draws from Canberra, Tumbarumba and other parts of NSW to make wines that are works of a mad genius, whether it's wildly spicy Shiraz or incredibly detailed and involving Chardonnay. These are lightning bolt wines, that sometimes don't make sense, but often are so good that you start immediately searching for another bottle after your first glass (especially because the meagre volume of bottles we have secured are all we can get).