Sarah Fagan

In 2024 this site got ahead of the curve and told the world about Sarah Fagan’s arrival at TarraWarra Estate in the Yarra Valley. It’s the turning point in the history of one of the Yarra Valley’s most important and highest profile wineries. Fagan is widely known as a gun winemaker and judge of wine and it was fitting to mark this moment both in words and in images.

Fagan allowed me a fair amount of time to take images and we took a variety of approaches. It would be fait to say that I took a lot of crappy images that day. But the series above and below are the goods and that’s all that matters. Fagan is facing a sliding door that opens and closes automatically, so we kept having to rush shots before the door closed again. Which is funny but then, a bit od=f deadline pressure is always a good thing.

All the images on this day were taken with the Sony A1 and Sony 50mm f1.4, mostly shot between f1.6 and f2.

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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