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There’s an outfit here in Germany called Jacques Weindepot.

They’ve got a great concept – a limited range of good, reasonably priced wines from small producers, you can taste everything, they have sensible opening hours and pleasant and knowledgeable people.

They’ve even got a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, which gets them a big tick from me.

Shepherds Ridge.

They’ve got this nice blurb about a father and son who run this small outfit and that they’re Keepers of the Tradition wugga wuuga blah blah.

But the name rang a bell and then it clicked – Brent Marris …

He’s the guy that Cuisine magazine excluded from their December wine judging for presenting a Sauvignon Blanc that wasn’t a lot like the stuff that the regular punters could buy in the shops

Brent Marris is also the guy who runs Wither Hills – 300 hectares, millions of bottles a year.

Small producer.

Yeah right.