Campbell Mattinson leaves Halliday Wine Companion to launch new site. CampbellMattinson.com is an online wine magazine with an emphasis on the best wines, the best value wines, and the best wine stories.

James Halliday has announced his retirement, and is no longer involved with the Halliday brand.

Landaire at Padthaway Chardonnay 2021 was a giant-killing wine. It was also the inspiration for my best wine moment of 2023.

Picture of the Franco Cozzo building in Footscray just prior to the brewery-restaurant renovation.

Sierra Reed, winemaker.

This is a list of the most collected Australian wine, as at 2023.

There were three editions of Campbell Mattinson’s Big Red Wine Book, and all qualified technically as “bestsellers”. i.e. they sold more than 5000 copies each.

Portrait of Barossa Valley winemaker Dave Powell.

If James Halliday hadn’t called me personally, I wouldn’t have taken on the Halliday chief editor role.

Mattinson’s thoughts on Penfolds Grange Shiraz 1983.

The novel We Were Not Men was shortlisted at the Indie Book Awards 2022.

The Monsanto building at Monsanto (454-460 Somerville Road) in Brooklyn in Melbourne was built in 1941. It’s now lays abandoned.

Campbell Mattinson’s film ‘Dissatisfaction’ won Best Regional Short Film at the 2020 St Kilda Film Festival.

In 2020 Campbell Mattinson’s film Dissatisfaction won the Best Regional Short Film award at the St Kilda Film Festival.

Cows, in a haze of smoke, in a dry creek, in summer.