CAMPBELL MATTINSON (pictured) is a multi-award winning writer. He won the Best Australian Sports Writing Award in 1996, an Independent Young Writer of the Year Award in 1995, picked up the prestigious NSW Wine Press Club Wine Communicator Award in both 2005 and 2007 (and was Runner-Up in 2006) and was a finalist at the World Food Media Awards in both 2003 and 2005.
In 2006 he released the book Wine Hunter: The Man Who Changed Australian Wine, a biography of the Hunter Valley winemaking legend Maurice O'Shea (Hachette Australia). The book won the NSW Wine Press Club Wine Communicator Award and was described by James Halliday as "one of the most remarkable wine books to ever come my way". Since then he has published Why the French Hate US: The Real Story of Australian Wine and The Big Red Wine Book (Hardie Grant, $22.95). His words on wine also appear in such magazines as The Bulletin and Gourmet Traveller WINE.
The Wine Front is founded on the belief that wine critics, increasingly, are everywhere; but wine journalists are scarce.
GARY WALSH: Former publisher of the successful internet review site www.winorama.com.au and wine editor for Inside Out Magazine, Gary now concentrates his efforts co-publishing Wine Front. Best described a man with a penchant for Bordeaux and blends but of generally catholic tastes (although sometimes firm in his protestation of the flabbier white varieties) he believes in reviewing wine with a light heart and a firm hand. Twenty years of obsessive wine tasting, he thinks, gives him some sort of excuse for being published.
Renowned writers Max Allen, Dave Brookes, and Max Marriott also occasionally contribute to The Wine Front. In time, a greater input from outside contributors will be sought.
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