A school field trip to a winery piqued Patrick Sullivan's interest in wine and led to his first summer job in a vineyard at only 12 years old. Though, he will tell you now that it wasn't until a stint in London working in high-end wine stores that he decided to take up studying winemaking and growing in earnest in Adelaide.

Patrick's plan was always to own his own vineyard, where the grower or vineyard manager and winemaker would work side by side, as opposed to independently of one another. In 2010 Sullivan launched his own eponymous small-batch wine label, Patrick Sullivan Wines using grapes grown on leased land. Four years later, he and his wife Megan bought a farm in the Strzelecki ranges of West Gippsland.

Today Sullivan's name is synonymous with Australia's  natural wine movement. That said, he prefers not to use the label 'natural', believing that the wine he makes is, put simply, the wine that he wants to make.