The Tri Nations Wine Challenge is an annual wine show event that pits the best of Australian wine vs their equivalent compatriots in South Africa & New Zealand. Given that …
This appeared on the Herald Sun website - I can't being to say how appalled I was at the …
Every year the cream of Coonawarra (with a few exceptions) goes on the road to spruik their wares at a series of tastings all around the nation. I attended the Sydney …
Two days of tasting - A Constellation Premium trade tasting followed by a tasting by the 'Family of Twelve' - 12 top kiwi wine families who promote their wines together …
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