Wally Cupitt
Wally Cupitt came back to the family winery between jobs in 2010, intending to help out. He never really left. Now head winemaker at Cupitt’s Estate – the South Coast operation his mother Rosie built from the ground up in Ulladulla – Cupitt makes wines that are shaped as much by where they’re drunk as where the grapes are grown: relaxed, food-pitched, and built to be shared. The range draws almost entirely from cool-climate Southern NSW, with Hilltops, Tumbarumba and the Canberra District providing the fruit across a Signature range led by Italian varieties – arneis, vermentino, fiano, sangiovese, montepulciano, nebbiolo – and a Project range that gives the winery room to explore. In a region still finding its identity, Cupitt is among those doing the defining.
