Three Lads

The three lads are Luke McGaghey, Aaron Harper and Bill Crowe,who fortuitously met at a local food and wine event in 2012, and decided that they should have some fun. Their business plan was simplicity itself: buy small amounts of grapes from vineyards in the Canberra District and turn them into wine. Bill Crowe had spent 10 years working at Scott Harvey Wines in Napa Valley and came to Australia to join his wife Jaime Crowe at Four Winds Vineyard, where he (Bill) is winemaker (his real job). -JAMES HALLIDAY