Dr Edge

After working as a winemaker for Petaluma, Peter Dredge moved to Tasmania in '10, spending 5 years within the Accolade group as chief winemaker at Bay of Fires. In ’15 he sourced a small amount of pinot noir from Joe Holyman of Stoney Rise and Gerald Ellis of Meadowbank to start his own label. He made the wine at Moorilla as a contract client with sole control of the winemaking process. In ’15, during vintage, the Ellis family, owners of Meadowbank, approached Pete to form a partnership to relaunch Meadowbank. As part of the deal, Meadowbank has given Pete a sole lease arrangement to 1.5ha, planted evenly between pinot noir, chardonnay and riesling. -JAMES HALLIDAY