Mates that travel the globe to introduce Australian wine lovers to beautiful artisan wines of the wo
Sydney, NSW
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We, Paul ‘Popsy’ Farrell and Jonathon ‘JJ’ Curry, met over 15 years ago. We hit it off immediately!
Our love of good food and wine of the world was an immediate common interest. Both of us are fathers – 7 kids between us and both passionate home cooks.
Living in different cities just meant travelling to and from Melbourne and Sydney for our regular catch ups. After catching up at a mutual friend’s farm in Shepparton Victoria, and chewing the fat over a few long lunches in Melbourne, some of which turned into nights, it became apparent that there was a lasting bond between us, besties. Often these chats would take place at a restaurant with amazing food and wine or at each other’s homes with home cooking and carefully selected wines to match the food. Invariably discussions would centre on the challenges of raising kids, getting through divorces, the weather, politics or whatever else came up in our long and often diverse discussions. Nothing is off limits. During some of these recent chats, always with a glass of wine in hand, we often joked about podcasting some of the more wild discussions we had usually while in fits of laughter, tears rolling down our cheeks.
Somewhere in these discussions was always our mutual passion for great food and wine and the challenges of Australian wine drinkers gaining access to beautiful artisan wines from the globe. It was always an interesting fact to us that Australia accounted for around 5% of the world wine production yet Australians drank predominantly Australian wine, often not discovering the magic of many other wonderful wine growing regions around the world accounting for the other 95% of production.
