Sarah Fagan

Written By Campbell Mattinson

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.

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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.

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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

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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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