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DECADES – Steve Flamsteed & Brad Rogers

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30/10/2026

On 30/10/2026

Best New Winery. Winemaker of the Year. Overall trophy at the Australian Pinot Noir Challenge. Decades, the Tasmanian label of Steve Flamsteed, formerly of Giant Steps, and Stone & Wood co-founder Brad Rogers, has collected all three in its first years.

The pair met on day one of their Oenology degree at Roseworthy College in 1991, two Queenslanders who had grown up listening to Joy Division. Steve went on to winemaking and Brad to brewing, and for three decades their careers took them in different directions while the friendship held. Hundreds of conversations about making wine together followed. In 2022 they finally did it, buying an established vineyard in Tasmania’s Coal River Valley and naming it Decades after the Joy Division song, the length of their friendship and the age of the original vines.

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Meet the Maker: STEVE FLAMSTEED

Toowoomba-born Steve Flamsteed studied at Roseworthy, put in time at Brown Brothers and Leeuwin Estate, then spent 18 years at Giant Steps in the Yarra Valley, where he still consults. Along the way he founded Salo in 2008, became a 2006 Len Evans Scholar, and began consulting to a handful of cool-climate wineries across Australia and New Zealand.

Decades is the latest addition to the list, and this year Halliday Wine Companion named him its 2027 Winemaker of the Year. Beyond his own projects, he is an avid mentor for young winemakers and has, by general agreement, excellent taste in music.