Young Guns of McLaren Vale

The thing about the Young Gun of Wine awards is, you don’t have to actually be all that young to enter. A young gun isn’t defined by their date of birth (so long as it’s after 1 July 1973, you can enter) but by their approach to winemaking. The awards celebrate the innovative and the adventurous, the boundary pushers and the experimenters. They reward energy and expect excitement. In other words, young does not equal youth; it’s far more complex and interesting than that.

This year nineteen of the top fifty winemakers vying for the title of ‘young gun’