Pierro

Dr. Mike Peterkin trained in medicine before completing a diploma in oenology at Roseworthy, and the scientific rigour shows. Pierro's Wilyabrup vineyard runs at up to 5,500 vines per hectare — nearly three times the Australian convention — planted into warm laterite gravel over granite. The increased competition between vines is the point: less fruit per vine, more concentrated flavour.