Dirty Black Denim

If Dirty Black Denim sounds like a pop-punk group from your 90s nostalgia daydreams, that's no accident. Brothers Tim and Lawrence Scanlon and their friends wanted to name their wine project like they'd name a band, their way of signaling that everything they do pushes back on the stodginess of what Australian wine became in the 20th Century. Dirty Black Denim started when four friends got their hands on two tonnes of fruit and some space in a shed in order to scratch the natural wine itch while still working at conventional wineries. These wines embrace experimentation and one of a kind expressions of their favorite grapes, always shooting for the very least intervention possible (zero additions of any kind is always the goal, though they're not afraid to use a little sulfur when it's needed). Now they're sourcing 35 tonnes from sustainably farmed vineyards (vast majority organic, others transitioning to organics) and making some of our favorite wine in Victoria.