The Block 2025 Alfresco & Shed Reveal: Robby and Mat’s Wine Cellar Gamble Pays Off With a Perfect 30

Right, Let’s Set the Scene

Ten weeks in, everyone’s insides are apparently “like a rotting corpse” (Mat’s words, not ours), and the smart money says whoever nails the backyard wins the whole competition. Scott Cam said it himself standing in a paddock in Daylesford: this series comes down to gardens. No pressure, Blockheads.

So of course the week turns into a rangehood scavenger hunt, a mum doing a 2.5-hour round trip to Melbourne in a car she doesn’t know runs on petrol, and one team quietly digging a $43,000 hole in the ground and calling it a “secret weapon.” Alfresco and Shed week has arrived, and it is, as always, absolute chaos with a Freedom gift card at the end of it.

Final Score Card

Rank	Team	Score	Judges’ Verdict
🥇 1st	Robby & Mat	30/30 (perfect score)	“This is the perfect wine cellar.”
🥈 2nd	Sonny & Alicia	~29/30	“This is divine.”
🥉 3rd	Britt & Taz	~27/30	“Their time management, their attention to detail and their eye is one of the best we’ve seen.”
4th	Emma & Ben	~24/30	“It’s very blokey.”
5th	Han & Can	~21/30	“It’s overdone and underdone in the same sentence.”

The gap at the top wasn’t subtle. Robby and Mat walked away with an actual perfect 30 out of 30 for a wine cellar nobody asked them to build, while three houses down Han and Can got the judging equivalent of being told to sit in the naughty corner. In between, Sonny and Alicia’s shed nearly matched the ten-out-of-tens on vibes alone, and Britt and Taz got glowing reviews everywhere except the “is it actually finished” column, which, spoiler, it wasn’t quite.

And in the ultimate plot twist, the team with the worst reveal of the week, Han and Can, walked off with the $20,000 CommBank budget bonus, because doing everything yourself with no money apparently counts for something even when the judges hate the result.

Emma and Ben: The Golf Sim Gamble Pays Off (Even If It’s a Bit Blokey)

House one played it relatively safe this week, right up until they were told, mid-tour, that their beloved enclosed barbecue area was about to fail compliance without a rangehood. Ben had one ready to go (“Yeah, we’ve got one”), which earned him actual praise from foreman Dan, a rare and precious commodity.

The bigger story was the back two-thirds of their shed, which is not a shed at all but a fully kitted-out golf simulator, complete with a bar, barstools and, because subtlety isn’t a Block currency, two free $1,000 memberships to the local golf club thrown in for whoever buys the place.

“I’m hoping that the judges see how usable the spaces are and I hope that they can see that we’ve really thought about our end user.”

Emma

The judges loved the deck’s height and the Stratco louvres, and Marty called it “hard to fault” from a marketing perspective. But Shaynna wasn’t having the styling.

“It’s very blokey… it just feels very orientated to men, rather than men and women wanting to use this space.”

Shaynna Blaze

The golf sim itself, though, was a genuine hit, Marty admitted he couldn’t imagine how many of the other sheds today would actually end up in a real estate listing. Theirs will.

Han and Can: Tunnel Vision, Zero Budget, One Very Extra Shed

If there’s a lesson from this episode, it’s that self-belief and an empty bank account make an extremely combustible combination. Dan told Han flatly that, given their budget position, the shed should have stayed a shed. Han’s response, roughly paraphrased by everyone around her: absolutely not.

“I know that if I can pull it off, our vision will be amazing.”

Han

Can, watching from a safe distance, gave the most honest team assessment of the season: “Han’s got tunnel vision. She is not listening to anyone… Doesn’t matter how much it’s gonna cost or how much time and energy it’s gonna take, she’s gonna take it on.” They split the shed into an art-studio-slash-plant-nursery zone with white CSR brick cladding and skylights, and a workshop zone with flat brick, wallpaper and mismatched finishes. It was a lot.

The morning of judging brought a full-blown wobble, with Han telling a crew member she genuinely did not care what time judging started because they weren’t going to be finished regardless.

“Well, we haven’t finished, so it doesn’t matter what we do.”

Han

The judges agreed it was, at minimum, a lot of effort in the wrong direction. Marty summed up the whole thing in one line: “It’s overdone and underdone in the same sentence.” Shaynna piled on over the alfresco too, telling them flat out they “can’t sell the dream.” The only silver lining: Han and Can somehow still took home the $20,000 CommBank budget award for the week, because grinding it out yourself with your own two hands apparently still counts, even when the judges hate the finished product.

Britt and Taz: Mum’s Melbourne Rangehood Run and a Near-Perfect Deck

Britt and Taz’s week started with a compliance bomb: no rangehood, no ventilation, no legal way to keep their enclosed barbecue area. With the local warehouse closing at 1pm and the nearest stock over an hour away in Melbourne, salvation came in the form of Taz’s mum, Dani, who volunteered to drive it back.

“Mum was driving in the desert two days ago with no traffic or traffic lights available. Now she’s fanging it through Melbourne city looking for a rangehood.”

Taz

Naturally, it escalated. The hybrid car ran out of battery because nobody told Dani it also needs petrol (“There’s petrol, Dani. You put petrol in it.”), and on the way back she reversed straight over a hay bale, leaving the car stuck and looking, in Taz’s words, like it had “a four-inch lift kit.” Somehow the rangehood made it. Somehow it all got installed in time.

The reveal itself was a genuine crowd-pleaser, a barbecue, teppanyaki plate and pizza oven combo that Darren called generous almost to a fault, plus an outdoor fireplace the judges practically had to be dragged away from.

“It’s incredible and their time management, their attention to detail and their eye is one of the best we’ve seen.”

Shaynna Blaze

Darren’s only real gripe was a slightly crooked rangehood, understandable, given the morning it had. “It looks like it was installed in a rush,” he said, which, fair.

Sonny and Alicia: The Sheddiest Shed That Ever Shedded

Sonny and Alicia kept it simple this week, “Our shed is a shed and it’s shedding,” Alicia deadpanned, and it turned out simple was exactly what the judges wanted after three other teams tried to reinvent the humble garden shed as an art gallery, wine bar or golf lounge.

“This is the sheddiest shed we’ve seen… with no wall in between, so it’s all just one big space. I really like it.”

Marty Fox

The highlight was a pool table cheekily disguised as a workbench, Sonny’s cover story being that it “could double as a workbench,” which fooled absolutely no one and delighted everyone. Their alfresco, meanwhile, drew one of the biggest compliments of the day.

“This is divine. They’ve got a sink, they’ve got the barbecue, they’ve got the pizza oven.”

Shaynna Blaze

Marty called it the most connected outdoor area he’d seen all day, and Alicia was so sure Darren was going to lowball them that when the score came back, she blurted out on camera, “What? I thought we were getting an eight.” She was wrong, in the good way.

Robby and Mat: The Wine Cellar Gamble Delivers a Perfect 30

Ten weeks ago, this was a joke. “Let’s put a shipping container in the ground,” Robby reportedly said in week one, and Mat’s response at the time was, verbatim, “You’re a (BLEEP) idiot.” This week, that idiot idea turned into a $43,000 underground wine cellar, a home gym with a Pilates reformer, and a genuinely perfect judging score.

It wasn’t smooth. On the morning of reveal there was still no staircase down to the cellar, concrete needed pouring, and Mat was having what he called “cute little menty Bs since Monday.”

“We don’t have entry for our wine cellar… it’s not going to happen.”

Mat

It did happen, Hipages tradies were pulled in to build cabinetry overnight, a stair contractor turned it around in a single morning, and by the time the judges walked in, they were speechless.

“We just came from a shed that I think was a perfect shed. This is the perfect wine cellar.”

Marty Fox

Add in a gym so good Darren visibly wanted to move in, and the result was a flawless 30 out of 30, the first perfect score of the week, and the reward that came with it (a house win plus bonus cash) tipped their total winnings for the day past $40,000. Not bad for an idea that started with someone calling you an idiot.

How It All Wrapped Up

By the time Scott Cam finished handing out cheques, the season’s power rankings had properly scrambled: Robby and Mat rode a genuinely mad gamble to a perfect 30 and a $40,000-plus haul, Sonny and Alicia proved that doing the simple thing well beats doing the ambitious thing badly, Britt and Taz turned a rangehood crisis into one of the best-reviewed decks of the day, Emma and Ben banked a crowd-pleasing golf simulator despite a “blokey” styling roasting, and Han and Can somehow walked away with the week’s $20,000 budget bonus despite delivering the reveal the judges liked least, proof that on The Block, there is more than one way to win, even when you’ve clearly lost. Every team also picked up a $10,000 Freedom voucher for their backyards, because nothing says “we’ve all been humbled” like a group gift card.

Grab a coffee, get comfortable, and we’ll see you back here for the next disaster.