The Wine Hunter, by Campbell Mattinson

14 Jan

The Wine Hunter book has just gone into its fifth re-print. It was the winner of the Best Wine Book award at the Wine Communicator Awards and was the reason that I won my second Wine Communicator of the Year award. Each re-print has seen the book updated slightly (the previous two re-prints have included a new chapter). Of all the words I’ve written on wine, The Wine Hunter’s words remain dearest to me (and of all the people in wine that I’ve written about, Maurice O’Shea remains my number one).
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Despite the number of re-prints, I sold out of physical copies of this book some time ago. The Mount Pleasant winery may still have copies. Electronic copies are available via various platforms, including but not limited to:
Apple Books
Amazon Kindle

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com

The Wine Hunter, by Campbell Mattinson

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