This is also a great day for the Biodynamic winegrowing movement in Australia and substantiates Jones belief and tenacious toil with organics and biodynamic ideologies. The naysayers said it could not be done in Leongatha-Southeast Gippsland, that it was too humid and vine disease would never be combated without conventional sprays and pesticides. Well, Phillip Jones has proved them wrong and has adapted his holistic methods and created a unique biodiversity within his vineyards that saw him make excellent wines even in the worst of years with the rain-soaked 2011, whilst his neighbours and the region wrote off the vintage.