Parthenon, Athens, 2024.

Peak season, Pantheon, Athens, Greece. Limited Edition print, Campbell Mattinson.

Sunglasses are advised. And sunscreen. And a hat. And a collar that you can turn up. The Parthenon on the acropolis in Athens, Greece, in 2024. It’s one of those places where the brightness of the crowd, and the blueness of the sky, become as much a part of the scene, and the experience, as the dominance of the stone, or the monument. I like this photograph because there’s colour, movement, wind and chaos everywhere and yet the image stills reads and still has its own order and cleanliness.

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 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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