Moppity Vineyards

Jason Brown grew up in his family's fine wine retail business convinced that elegant, medium-bodied wines would outlast the blockbuster era. In 2004, he and his wife Alecia bought the neglected Moppity Vineyard in Hilltops — established 1973, sitting at 600 metres elevation — and set about proving it. The altitude gives warm days and genuinely cold nights; the result is Shiraz with concentration but enough natural acid to stay upright.