D’Arenberg’s colourful winemaker Chester Osborn. D’Arenberg Wines
D’Arenberg winemaker Chester Osborn says he’s been refused service in restaurants eight times in the US because “they thought I was a homeless person”. Such are his unruly shock of hair and eccentric dress habits.
Chester is impossible to categorise, his colourful attire and sometimes bizarre utterances matched by the extraordinary names of his wines. Stephanie The Gnome With Rose Coloured Glasses, and The Old Bloke & the Three Young Blondes, for example.
They are remarkable for their quality and character as much as their range and diversity.
At a recent function for the wine trade in Sydney, he brought along the original artwork for 85 of his wines, each of which has a unique label created by approximately 70 artists.
It would be easy to underestimate Chester’s seriousness at what he does. He comes across as very loose, a fun-lover who doesn’t seem to take it all too seriously, but his wines tell a different story.
They are remarkable for their quality and character as much as their range and diversity. And D’Arenberg is big: annual production is 200,000 cases of wine. It’s big in America, hence Chester’s frequent trips across the Pacific.
All D’Arenberg estate owned and leased vineyards are NASAA certified organic and biodynamic. That’s 600 acres of vines, and Chester claims D’Arenberg is the biggest biodynamic wine producer in Australia.
If over-the-top describes Chester’s presentations (he brought suitcases full of objects that each tell a story about one of
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