Adrian Sparks
Mount Pleasant, I wrote in my Australia’s Best Wineries guide, is “the birthplace of fine Australian wine, the name on the label of many of the best Australian wines of all time. Mount Pleasant is a legend of both the past and of now.”
I believed that then and I believe that now.
I always thought that this photographic session with Adrian Sparks was a good one. I thought this because the light, particularly in the cellar door, was about as exquisite as it gets. And yet every time I look at these images I’m disappointed with them. I don’t know why. Adrian Sparks is a champion winemaker, Mount Pleasant is a champion estate, the light was good, so too the setting. I also like the moment in time of these images: the Mount Pleasant cellar door has just been renovated (beautifully), but not yet been re-opened; the covers were still on the artworks on the wall.
In any case, these are the images and, thanks to Adrian, the Mount Pleasant wines are as magnificent as ever.
