Queuing for the bus in a distant WA (Washington State), is not your typical origin story for a wine brand. Yet in 2006, young winemakers, Lance Parkin and Kris Ambrozkiewicz, known as Ambro, met by chance, en route to a vintage job at Covey Run Winery. “I was hard to miss — my Wolfmother T-shirt gave me away as a fellow Australian,” Ambro jokes.
Both were recent graduates from the same viticulture and oenology course at Curtin University. Just one year apart, but until then their paths hadn’t crossed. They remained friends, Parkin pursuing his winemaking career at Houghton punctuated by vintages across Europe, with a passion project on the side — organising Australia’s best white burgundy tasting each year. Ambro, combining winemaking jobs with sommelier work and sales, became one of the most familiar wine industry faces to bump into at Perth’s best restaurants and independent bottle shops.
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