UN PO' - the Italian story.
UN PO' (meaning 'a little'/'a little bit') has been Matt's personal wine pseudonym in Europe since 2020. It celebrates the joys of small batch, truly natural ancestral winemaking – wild fermented organically grown grapes, no additives, sulphur or control, with pure energy & feeling – because these are the wines that he has always loved to make and drink. Matt's UN PO' project has been the driving force behind our commitment, since 2024, to make all Minimum wines 100% natural wines (we cannot wait to share vintage 2024 with you!).
Back in 2017, as the embryonic idea of Minimum was emerging from their consciousness, Matt & Lentil began to visit Italy, Matt's ancestral home. By 2019, with Minimum about to launch, they were too in love with this new (old) land. So, they moved their home there, vowing to return for the Australian harvest each year. They lived in Bosa, on the wild west coast of Sardegna for three years and owned a 1/3-acre home vineyard, or vignetto, which contained at least 10 varieties (the 80 year-old man that sold them the land couldn't remember exactly how many, but he wrote out a list, which included obscure Sardinian red varieties Matt had never heard of before, and lots of Malvasia).
Post-COVID, Matt and Lentil moved (mainly) to Berlin, after an unplanned visit to friends extended, then extended again, and suddenly they found themselves renting an apartment there. They continued to return to Italy and their Bosa home, and in 2022 Matt began making wine in Tuscany with Berlin brother @MarcoOhboy, as well as continuing to return to Australia to make wine for Minimum each harvest.
That 2022 UN PO' harvest, dubbed Casa Cantina, had to be smuggled into Germany from Italy because Matt & Marco had illegally made it in Marco's family's abandoned holiday home by the sea in Southern Tuscany. The underground release of two orange Trebbianos and two bold Sangioveses cemented Matt in the Berlin natural wine scene, and quickly sold out (you can learn more about UN PO' to this point here).
In 2024, after 10 years exploring the joys and challenges of truly natural winemaking, UN PO' got real. Matt partnered with dear friends-of-friends, Luca, Evie, Erin and Massi, who had just bought an organic winery one valley over from Montalcino, in the wild Tuscan Maremma. They called it Atavica. This time, everything was above board. Matt led the harvest for the new team of friends in their classic Tuscan cantina between morning and evening Mediterranean swims.
Shortly after that harvest, Matt and Lentil decided it was time to return to Australia to share all the lessons they had learned. As part of that return journey, Matt decided to bring back his entire portion of the wines he made at Atavica in 2024. Those six, completely natural wines, were bottled in June 2025 by the Atavica crew and driven to a big boat. They are now on their way to us here.
Come October, they will arrive. We can't wait to share them with you.