In 1990-91 I resigned from my job to write the story that I had to write. It took nearly 30 years to finish. The book, titled WE WERE NOT MEN, will be published by Fourth Estate in June 2021. This video was created in the middle of 2020, pre-publication, when I was wrung out, worn down and raw. It’s not a story of redemption. It’s about stupid stubborn rock-like hope.
It won Best Regional Short Film at the St Kilda Film Festival 2020.
This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.
Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.
Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.
