Life for me is divided into two distinct parts - before the fires and after the fires.

Before the fires I was a filmmaker living deep in the Australian bush. I had a love for good food, good wine and a simple life. And while I have been a volunteer firefighter for much of my adult life, nothing would have prepared me for seeing my own home burnt to the ground after Black Saturday.

All I could think was, "How do you begin again from this?" With almost everything I owned destroyed, I found myself for the first time ever needing help.

Thanks to friends in the wine industry, I knew a secret.

I knew there were loads of great wines in quantities too small to be of interest to the big online wine players. They need to buy in bulk, and I knew there were lots of these tiny parcels tucked away in wineries all over the country.

My plan was to deliver these hidden gems to really good people at really good prices, while passing on 50% of my profit to the charity of their choice.

And it's worked. Our reviews are our proof and we have a customer return rate that is unheard of in the wine world.