THE WINE FRONT

The Wine Front is five years old and going strong. It was set up in May 2002 by Campbell Mattinson - a journalist of over 20 years.

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". His words on wine also appear in such magazines as The Bulletin and Gourmet Traveller WINE.

The Wine Front, though, is his freewheeling wine passion.

The Wine Front is founded on the belief that wine critics, increasingly, are everywhere; but wine journalists are scarce.