Twenty Years in the Making:
Curated Has Landed

28 July 2026. Words by YGOW.

Two decades of tasting thousands of wines a year, in search of the good stuff, has been leading to this. This month, Young Gun of Wine dispatched the very first CURATED packs — and the members who opened them found exactly what we set out to deliver: wine worth getting curious about, hand-picked by people who taste for a living.

CURATED is Young Gun of Wine’s new monthly wine membership, and it is, simply put, the best way to discover Australia’s outstanding and new wave wine producers. Three bottles a month, chosen by the YGOW team and delivered to the door, shaped over time by what members tell us they love.

This isn’t stock being cleared off a shelf. Every bottle in every CURATED pack is hand-sourced — hunted out, tasted and championed by the same palates behind two decades of Young Gun of Wine Awards, Vineyard of the Year Awards and Deep Dive tastings. Many are made in tiny quantities, some on limited allocations you won’t find on a shelf at all — as you’ll see in the videos below. It’s built on a simple promise: if it’s in a CURATED pack, we love it.

“We taste thousands of wines every year to find the best of the best,” says Rory Kent, Founder of Young Gun of Wine. “CURATED takes all of that — the research, the relationships, the two decades of being at the forefront of Aussie wine — and turns it into three bottles that arrive at your door: wines we’re reaching for ourselves, and wines we wholeheartedly believe you will enjoy too. It takes all the work and all the risk out of discovering the outstanding wines and makers of Australia.”

Inside some of the first packs

2024 Utzinger Estate Pinot Noir

2024 L’Anima ‘Sobremesa’ Passvm Muscat Blanc

2024 Marri Wood Park Chenin Blanc

2025 Grosset ‘Springvale’ Riesling

2021 Dal Zotto ‘L’Immigrante’ Barbera

2025 Yelland & Papps ‘Stone Well’ Syrah

“We taste thousands of wines every year to find the best of the best. CURATED takes all of that — the research, the relationships, the two decades of being at the forefront of Aussie wine — and turns it into three bottles that arrive at your door: wines we’re reaching for ourselves, and wines we wholeheartedly believe you will enjoy too. It takes all the work and all the risk out of discovering the outstanding wines and makers of Australia.”

The first month’s selections are a genuine taste of what CURATED is about: wines most drinkers would never stumble across on their own, from producers doing exactly the kind of work Young Gun of Wine has spent twenty years championing. Watch the videos above for a look inside some of the first packs to land on members’ doorsteps.

Discovery with Purpose

Australian wine doesn’t have a quality problem. It has a discovery problem. There has never been more exceptional wine being made in this country — from growers to small-scale makers, to the icons, to young, new wave and emerging producers — and never been more noise to wade through to find it. CURATED exists to close that gap: to put two decades of tasting, research and relationships, put to work — for you. We make discovery easy, and put you at the leading edge of Australian wine — pouring bottles your friends haven’t found yet.

Every CURATED membership does more than fill a glass. It helps champion emerging winemakers, celebrate sustainable vineyards, and keep Young Gun of Wine producing the tastings, stories and wine intel that connect more people to great Australian wine. It’s a direct line to the Awards, the Deep Dives, and the growers and makers shaping where Australian wine goes next.

How it works

Joining takes about a minute. Choose your pack — reds, whites, or a mix — and CURATED does the rest.

Each month, three bottles arrive at your door, chosen by the team. You taste, and you tell us what hit, what missed, and what you’d like more of. From there, we refine — dialling your future packs in around your own feedback, so the selections get more attuned to your palate with every pack.

No wine expertise required. No homework. No lock-in.

Get in before next month’s pack

CURATED memberships open on a monthly cycle, with a limited allocation of wines in each round. Join now to lock in next month’s pack — three hand-sourced wines, chosen by a team that tastes thousands to find them, delivered straight to your door. Young Gun of Wine has spent two decades discovering the people, vineyards and bottles shaping Australian wine now. CURATED is where all of it comes together.

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Twenty Years in the Making: Curated Has Landed

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“One of the highlights of my drinking year.”
— Max Allen, Wine Writer
“The future of wine in Australia.”
— Broadsheet
“The cutting edge of Australian wine.”
— The Australian
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