Books

In 2006 I started writing a book on a winemaker from the 1920s, a winemaker named Maurice O’Shea, a man who sacrificed both his love and his life in the fanatical pursuit of Great Australian wine - which, until this pursuit, had never really existed. I wrote this story in eight weeks. I called this book The Wine Hunter.
James Halliday said of The Wine Hunter: ‘it’s not a wine geek book but an epic.’

The Wine Hunter

The Wine Hunter won the Australian Wine Communicator Award in 2006. In 2016 the revised (hard-cover) edition of The Wine Hunter won the Chairman’s Prize at the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards in London.

HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 2024

“Cometh the moment, cometh the book.” The Halliday Wine Companion book 2024 is out and the highest scoring wines are probably the best value they’ve been in years. It’s a ripper edition: everyone involved has done an incredible job.

Big Red Wine Book

I loved this book. There were three editions: 2008, 2009 and 2010. The writing of it involved soaking myself in a lake of red wine through the height of summer and beyond, and then putting it all together, and then rushing it out while the wines were still current, and then promoting it, and then calling all the wines in for the next edition, and then soaking myself in big red wines all over again. Great times.

Halliday Wine Companion

I started reviewing for the best-selling Halliday Wine Companion in 2013/2014. I worked on the guide as a taster for six or seven years. In 2022 I returned as the Chief Editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book.