Le Pont hosts regular wine tastings and masterclasses across Sydney and Melbourne, showcasing carefully selected producers and wines from around the world. Explore our Current Events page to book upcoming tastings, or shop the wines featured in past events through our dedicated collection, so you can continue the experience at home.Two scientists walk into a vineyard. Sounds like the start of a joke — but for Ray Nadeson and Maree Collis, it was the beginning of one of Victoria’s most compelling wine stories. After years balancing careers in science with weekends digging holes and planting vines, the two made Lethbridge Wines their full-time obsession in 2003. Both hold PhDs — chemistry and medicine respectively — and approached the search for their ideal site the same way they’d approach a research problem: methodically, rigorously, and with zero shortcuts. The result is a winery that feels entirely its own thing. The Flagship Vineyard sits 30km northwest of Geelong on land originally planted by Swiss immigrants in 1874, and the biodynamic, low-intervention philosophy that runs through everything here isn’t a marketing line — it’s baked into how Ray and Maree think. Indigenous yeast fermentations, foot-stomping, small open fermenters, minimal handling — every decision in the winery is about getting out of the way and letting the site speak. The masterclass will be led by Ray Nadeson himself — co-founder, scientist-turned-winemaker, and one of the driving forces behind 30 years of Lethbridge. Over the years, Lethbridge has become one of the most distinctive voices in Victorian wine, producing bottles that balance precision, character and a real sense of place. The wines move comfortably between classic and experimental — from age-worthy Chardonnay and finely detailed Pinot Noir to savoury, structured Shiraz and the wonderfully left-field Vin Jaune Yellow. On tasting: Bracket 1Lethbridge Methode Ancestrale 2023Nadeson Collis Inception NV Bracket 2Lethbridge Chardonnay 2024Lethbridge Allegra Chardonnay 2019Lethbridge Allegra Chardonnay 2013 Bracket 3Lethbridge Pinot Noir 2024Lethbridge Block 4 Pinot Noir 2023Lethbridge Mietta Pinot Noir 2020 Bracket 4Lethbridge Que Syrah Syrah 2023Lethbridge Shiraz 2022Lethbridge Indra Shiraz 2018 Bracket 5Lethbridge Vin Jaune Yellow NV
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