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Vininspo! Podcast Episode 33: Marcus Satchell, Dirty Three Wines
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- Jan 15, 2026
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Summary
The smiling faces of Marcus Satchell and Lisa Sartori are synonymous with Gippsland food and wine. Anyone who’s taken off from Melbourne Airport in recent years will have seen them beaming down from a billboard above the freeway. Their flagbearer status has been earned from a buzzing cellar door championing local produce and from the array of award-winning wines that Marcus—or Satchy, as everyone knows him—has produced from an unprecedented array of fruit sources across this scattered region. For Marcus, there is both a general and specific side to Dirty Three. In the former camp, you have the unstinting determination to push Gippsland forward, driven by the excellence of its food, drink and tourism offerings. He also sees that the cellar door experience is not just about wine, but an overriding sense of good hospitality at which Lisa is innately gifted. Community enjoyment, fuelled by music, is vital. And on the specific side, Satchy has taken his unique insight on Gippsland grapes, gleaned over years as an itinerant and contract winemaker, and turned it into wines that shine a light on the commonalities and singularities of the region’s sites, with Pinot Noir the key medium. Marcus was born in Wonthaggi, about 130km southeast of Melbourne, and these days the Dirty Three cellar door is about 13km east of there. Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with Gippsland geography—most people are—so we cover it at length in the interview. Marcus refers to his early musical days, including enrolling at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). His band that burst onto the scene is Cranky; check out this clip. Contemporaries he references include Skunkhour, Regurgitator and TISM, while The Cat Empire is jazz-funk outfit that people have cited as a latter-day pseudo-progression of Cra…