A picture of John Brown of Brown Brothers wines at the Milawa winery in 2018.
I took this photo of John Brown – of Brown Brothers fame – at a vertical tasting held at the Brown Brothers winery in Miliwa one cold Saturday morning. I was near-enough the start of my photography journey, or the modern take of it anyway, and this was just snapped as he spoke to the assembled few. I don’t love this picture but I like having it, if that makes sense.
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 a respected 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 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.
