We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
TS Eliot, ‘Little Gidding’

ONE WARM LONDON afternoon last autumn, a large group of avant-garde Australian winemakers took over a nightclub in Shoreditch, the capital’s current hipster hotspot, for a raucous tasting of their latest wines. The idea was to expose the UK trade and media to some of the buzzy small-batch Australian wines crackling through our own hipster hotspots back home. It worked a treat too: the response to the event was overwhelmingly positive.