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, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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