BK Wines

Brendon Keys traded the chaos of a professional kitchen for a winemaking degree in his native New Zealand, then spent years cutting his teeth as an assistant to Paul Hobbs in California and Argentina before he and wife Kirstyn planted roots in the Adelaide Hills in 2007. What began as two barrels of pinot noir made in downtime between other people's vintages has grown into a label regarded as one of the drivers of the region's artisan natural wine scene, prized for single-vineyard bottlings built on meticulous, low-intervention winemaking rather than showmanship. The tasting room at Basket Range keeps things intimate by design — open only a few afternoons a week, capped at twelve guests, with two tasting formats moving from current releases up to single-vineyard exclusives. It is a small, considered operation in a small, considered building, the kind of place where the person pouring the wine is usually the person who made it, and where the 2025 Adelaide Hills award for best cellar door host went to exactly that kind of care.