Everything Kristal and Peter sell is made of recycled barrels from across the Barossa, McLaren Vale and Adelaide Hills, and 11 years since the pair went into business, they are still always eager to find more wineries to salvage them from.
Peter follows a process over days to make a single product, and he loves having control over the end result.
“Whatever I do, I will usually try and do myself,” he says.
“My dad was handy, and all my brothers are the same, so I’ve just grown up with it. You don’t get someone in if you can do it yourself.”
Self-determination runs in the family, too.
Kristal says, “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always wanted to do something for myself. It was in my blood. I always had these business ideas.”
Kristal had clear plans for what kind of product she wanted to market, and how she wanted Winestains to stand out from the crowd.
“I kind of wanted to reinvent things,” Kristal says.
“I wanted to modernise it and make it a bit more luxe, and I wanted to tell the story of the wine barrel and the past life of this timber, because I think that’s kind of cool to understand where something has come from.
“What we really love about what we do is we honour the history of the product – where it originated from.
“The end user, they get a little postcard, and it acknowledges the winery, so they get to know the story and they get to understand where it’s come from.”