Campbell Mattinson leaves Halliday Wine Companion to launch new site

Written By Campbell Mattinson

This is the unofficial launch of CampbellMattinson.com as an online wine magazine. This website is about the story of wine, the stories of wine, the best wines, and the best value. It is free. It will place emphasis on words and images and people and wine, and on the land from which it all grows. This site will not sell wine.

I’ve worked for James Halliday on and off for the past 13 years. I’ve been chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion for the past two years. I’ve worked at The Winefront since 2002. The 2025 edition of the Halliday Wine Companion is the first edition since James Halliday announced his retirement, and the last that I’ll work on as either its chief editor, or as a member of the Halliday tasting team.

CampbellMattinson.com is a natural complement to The Winefront site.

If you think that you might like to advertise on this site, I’d suggest that now is the best time to get in.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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