Winemaker Portraits

In an ideal world I’d get to take a picture of every winemaker and indeed every wine-related person in the world. I clamber and snatch at every opportunity that I get – which is, admittedly, seldom. Meanwhile, here is a collection of work and, where appropriate, some background information to the image(s). The background information could be wine related. It could be photography related. It could just be an anecdote. I’m a writer. I’m a photographer. This is a series of people photography work, in the area of wine.

All the “WINEMAKER PORTRAITS” are here.

This is also photography work, in the area of wine, in an era when the photographic documentation of wine people is at historically low levels. No one commissions photographers to take images of wine people anymore. In that context, by sad accident rather than by design, this ongoing series has its own (small) importance.

There are only 21 images in this collection. A few more will be added and, with luck, many more taken in future.

Winemaker Portraits by Mattinson.

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 both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national 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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