Adam Foster

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Every now and then the right winemaker enters the right region at the right time. Adam Foster of Syrahmi is that winemaker, in the Heathcote region. Jasper Hill put the region on the fine wine map; Paul Osicka and now Simon Osicka are the region’s bedrock; Adam Foster dares to dream and knows how to deliver.

The rocks on the Syrahmi property are quite seriously awesome. Foster seems at home in among them. The thing about environmental portraiture – which these images are – is that the images rarely stand out. They’re not instagramable. And yet for me they are the best of images. I can honestly say that of all the images I’ve taken of wine people, these images of Foster in his landscape are the ones that I’ve returned to the most.

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These images were taken with the Fujifilm GFX 50R camera, with a 50mm f3.5 prime. The detail is phenomenal.

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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