<i>'Alexander Vineyard is a boutique Martinborough winegrowing operation owned by Michael Finucane and his wife Roz Walker. Joining the founders Kingsley and Deborah Alexander as working partners, Michael and Roz established their own 5 ha vineyard on Hinakura Road over 1997-1998 with 15,000 Pinot Noir and 750 Merlot vines all close-planted, and took over Alexander Vineyards in 2001. Michael and Roz finished their new winery at the vineyard site in time for the 2014 vintage. They are fully hands-on with the viticulture and winemaking, and have made a good number of high quality wines which have a loyal following.</i></p>

In the world of Cognac, the house of Frapin may not be the first that comes to mind; somehow it has managed to travel just a little under the radar. For 700 years and twenty-something generations! But not any more.<p> The Frapins have been winegrowers in the sleepy little Cognac town of Segonzac since 1270 and with over 200 hectares under vine, Cognac Frapin is the largest estate in the famed Grande Champagne sub-region. In due course, the Frapins expanded their repertoire to distillation and their Cognacs enjoyed great renown amongst the houses, traders and cognoscenti in the 19th century; indeed most of their production was earmarked for the houses of Hennessy, Remy Martin and Courvoisier.<p> That all started to change when Beatrice Cointreau took over the reins from her father Max in 1984 and began restoring Frapin to its rightful place as one of the most venerable of Cognac brands. Since then their extraordinary stocks of old, even

Lightfoot & Sons is a small family producer run by second generation brothers Tom and Rob Lightfoot. Located in the pristine Gippsland Lakes region of Victoria,the vineyard was first planted in 1995 by the Lightfoot family. In the intervening years the family business has grown and the wines are now made by Alastair Butt and Tom Lightfoot.