Noon is that rare thing - a world renowned two person winery in McLaren Vale. Drew Noon MW and Rae only get in friends to help with the harvest. Otherwise their dry-farmed, biodynamic vineyard is tended only by them. When Drew returned to the farm where he was raised, the wines were distinctively average and the reputation worse. Drew had done a lot of travelling around south east Australia since leaving home to become an oenologist and eventually realised that he preferred pruning to man-managing. The threat of his old family home`s having to be sold was the spur that brought him back.

The Noon vineyard already had unsprayed, elderly vines and a basket press - it just needed a super talented winegrowing couple to realise the potential. Word quickly spread and Noon`s relentlessly good value and very high quality wines became as exquisitely unavailable as they were sought after.

You might describe these as natural wines in the best sense and fellow MW Olivier Humbrecht might recognise the validity of that assertion. But however you describe them, these balanced, elegant full throttle offerings commonly delight even those who profess not to like Aussie wine.