“There’s a romantic narrative in winemaking that should be told more often than what it is,” says Jarad Curwood of Chapter Wine in Victoria, “and that story should be told through the vineyard, not through the skills of the winemaker.”

Jarad is a painter who gravitated toward wine’s black hole, while studying a fine arts degree at the University of Melbourne, and working at Melbourne’s City Wine Shop. There, he was exposed to the mysteries of wine via the dregs of near empty bottles, left over from the evening’s trade. - The Wine Idealist