At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say, I discovered wine, and my life evolved with a unique dual focus - wine and environment.
Twenty years later and I spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.
I now judge at wine shows around the world, sit on the Australian Wine List of the Year awards panel and was once a Wine Journalism Young Gun (but baby that was years ago).
Currently, I write features for a variety of publications including National Liquor News, Gourmet Traveller WINE and the RAS, plus I'm a former Lifestyle FOOD channel wine expert.
In 2019 and 2020 I was voted in the Top 30 Best Wine Critics in The World, and in my spare time, I'm a sucker for punishment and run trail ultra marathons, much to the delight of my long-suffering family. Read more about me here or get in touch to book your next wine event with me here
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I’m glad that d’Arenberg is still doing a good job with d’Arry’s Original, what with all the different shirazes and grenaches thay have come out with. One might have thought that all those new labels would take something away from this basic bottling – well I certainly wondered. Anyway, this sounds nice and I might give it go if I find it here in Canada at a fair price. Right now I’m sitting on a few of the ’99s and a magnum of the 2000. Oh dear, I just realised that I should have tried the 1999 last year, at the 20 year mark.
Worth cracking it to see how it’s travelling. May well be still alive.