About

The Wine Front is a leading Australian wine review and information site. It is subscriber-based and fully independent. It was set up in May 2002 by Campbell Mattinson - a journalist of over 20 years. In August 2008 Gary Walsh (founder of www.winorama.com.au) joined forces with The Wine Front and became Co-Publisher of the site.

About Campbell Mattinson and Gary Walsh:

CAMPBELL MATTINSON won the Best Australian Sports Writing Award in 1996, an Independent Young Writer of the Year Award in 1995, and the prestigious NSW Wine Press Club Wine Communicator Award in both 2005 and 2007.

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”. He’s also published Why the French Hate US: The Real Story of Australian Wine and The Big Red Wine Book (Hardie Grant, 2008). His words on wine have appeared in such magazines as The Bulletin, Gourmet Traveller WINE, Decanter, and Australian Table.
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 as 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. Oh and he’s co-author of the 2009-10 edition of The Big Red Wine Book.

Another regular feature of The Wine Front is the Q&A Winemaker Interviews run by Adam Catford.