James Halliday

Written By Campbell Mattinson

In May 2020 I travelled to James Halliday’s house at Coldstream Hills on a wet, cold day. James was selling his cellar. This was the day that the most prized and beloved wines in his collection – the wines of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti – were being catalogued, boxed up, and taken away.

These images of James Halliday were taken at Coldstream Hills on this day.

James Halliday and Tamara Grischy of Langton’s (above left and below). The first shot here is taken from Halliday’s home office, through to his cellar. Above right is in his Halliday’s home office – with Halliday, Annie Clemenger, Tamara Grischy (Langton’s) and a photographer from The Australian.

The day I visited James Halliday for the above photographs I also shot video of James speaking to camera. This is the worst video content I’ve ever created but if you must, it’s available if you scroll down here.

 
Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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