Grapes // Yeast // Hands // Feet Wine made minimally, in small batches, with integrity Little Brunswick is the culmination of Alex and Rob’s efforts to turn a small tax return, and several hundred buckets of grapes into a winery within the tiny five-foot cellar underneath Alex’s house. Their aim is to shake-up the Australian wine industry with community-minded winemaking and sustainable viticulture. They are both passionate about the history of winemaking and the land they live on. For them, this means working with growers firmly rooted in their vineyards to revitalize grape varieties that are less fashionable, showcasing the unique aspects of some of the world’s oldest, and most distinct soils. Alex and Rob reject interventionist techniques in favour pot lower yields, more attentive winemaking, and using their surroundings and natural processes to enhance their wines. They believe that this creates a tension in the glass where the wines express their place and personality with purity. Their philosophy is to put people and place above all other aspects of winemaking and viticulture which means acknowledging the 65,000 year history of farming and stewardship in Australia by indigenous Australians. This 65,000 year history shaped Australia’s soil profiles and the wines made there today. Alex and Rob make wine on the lands of the Wurundjeri people with fruit sourced from across the lands of western and central Victoria. They acknowledge that sovereignty of these lands was never ceded, and they always were and always will be aboriginal land.