The Winefront is Australia’s most active wine library, with more than 300,000 wine entries, covering wine ratings, wine reviews and consumer opinions. It was, in 2002, the first Australian wine media outlet to go entirely digital. It’s active for its reviews – 60,000+ unique reviews/articles, posted daily, plus 240,000+ user opinions, comments and buying alerts – but also for its community, the likes of which exists nowhere else in Australian wine. It’s an inclusive site, bustling, real, lively, fearless, free-ranging and honest. Over the past 22 years The Winefront has established itself as a reliable, 100% independent authority on wine but more importantly, as a two-way conversation with its fellow lovers of wine.

The Winefront takes nothing for granted. Not the wines, not the producers, not its subscribers, not its friends, not its reputation or its respect. On all these things it works hard.

Unlike most wine media outlets around the world, The Winefront does not accept any advertising from wineries. It also does not charge any fee to wineries to have their wines reviewed.

The Winefront has never and will never run an “advertorial” or sponsored content or “promotions” of any kind. The Winefront sees all sponsored content as the death of independence and, therefore, of integrity.

The Winefront team consists of Gary Walsh, Mike Bennie, Kasia Sobiesiak, Curly Haslam-Coates and Campbell Mattinson. We do the formal reviewing. The Winefront community though runs into the thousands, and is itself part of the team.

Winefront does not sell wine in any way.

Winefront is renowned for its frank, fearless, honest wine reviews.

The Winefront is a subscriber-only service and has been since it started in 2002.

Each year thousands of new wine reviews and comments are published on the site. Wines are given a score out of 100 and a ‘best drinking’ window. All past reviews, articles and comments remain on the site and can be accessed by subscribers (only).

All wines are treated the same, regardless of whether the producer of the wine subscribes to the site or not.

Unlike an increasing number of wine review sites, all wines are reviewed free of any charge to the winery.

All material on The Winefront is protected by copyright, and should not be reproduced in any form without written consent from one or both of the publishers (Campbell Mattinson and Gary Walsh). Any reproduction of material from The Winefront without permission is a breach of copyright.

About the publishers of The Winefront:

CAMPBELL MATTINSON
Founder The Winefront // Former Chief Editor Halliday Wine Companion // Former Editor Halliday Magazine // Journo 30 yrs // Former Editor Australian Sommelier Magazine // Winner Best Australian Sports Writing Award 1996 // Twice winner Wine Press Club Wine Communicator Award // Winner Chairman’s Award International Louis Roederer Wine Media Awards // Author 3 editions Big Red Wine Book // Author The Wine Hunter // Winner Best Regional Film St Kilda Film Festival // Youtube Channel // Author We Were Not Men // Publisher www.campbellmattinson.com
Instagram: @campbell.mattinson

GARY WALSH
Was the publisher of the successful internet review site www.winorama.com.au, is the former wine editor for Inside Out Magazine and is currently co-publisher of Australia’s most active subscription based wine review website – www.winefront.com.au – proudly independent since 2002. He has a philosophy (if you could call it anything so lofty) of reviewing wine with levity and a light heart, but a firm hand. Over twenty something years of obsessive wine tasting, he thinks, gives him some sort of excuse for being published. He’s also co-author of the previous two editions of The Big Red Wine Book (Hardie Grant Publishers), a regular judge at the West Australian Good Food and Wine Awards (WAGFG), something of a specialist on the wines of Piedmont, and likes to write about himself in the third person. He’s a great guy.

Instagram: @garywalsh

MIKE BENNIE
Mike Bennie is a freelance wine and drinks writer and journalist, wine judge and presenter based in Sydney, Australia. Mike is the Editor-At-Large and contributor to the highly respected online wine commentary website WineFront.com.au and a columnist/feature writer for benchmark publication Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine. He is currently wine/drinks editor for delicious. magazine and his work has also appeared in Sun-Herald Style Magazine, Time Out Magazine Sydney and Melbourne, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age’s Good Food section, Men’s Style magazine, Women’s Health, Wine Business Magazine Australia, Broadsheet, Meininger’s Wine Business International magazine (Europe), Harper’s Wine & Spirits (UK), Decanter (UK) amongst other publications. Mike has also been a wine judge in Australia and overseas, and a graduate of the prestigious Len Evans Tutorial. Mike was named Wine Communicator’s of Australia Digital Wine Communicator of the Year 2013. Mike and friends established and co-direct Rootstock Sydney, Australia’s first sustainable and artisan wine and produce fair. He is a regular presenter at public and industry events, and between travels to exotic vineyards around the world, enjoys long walks on the beach with a bottle of wine in his hand.

*Disclaimer: Mike Bennie is co-founder and co-owner of a packaged liquor (wine, beer, spirits) bottle shop in Sydney’s Inner West, P&V Wine and Liquor Merchants (established December 2017). Ideally, wines reviewed by Mike Bennie will not be sold by this business.

Instagram: mikebennie101

KASIA SOBIESIAK
Kasia came to Sydney almost 10 years ago and fell in love with wine. She was looking for an engineering job as per her background but stumbled upon a few restaurant roles requiring the service of fermented grape juice. She thought it was not far from the environmental protection she studied, given all the biology and chemistry involved, and also fun. So it stuck and became a passion quickly. Now, she has classical wine knowledge with a WSET Diploma and Certified Sommelier exams under her belt. Kasia’s work and focus grow exponentially every year, with recent contributions to WA Good Food Guide wine judging, taking a finalist spot at New Zealand’s Family of XII tutorial and teaching WSET courses. Her experience encompasses work within the IT industry, digital media, social media and events. Moreover, Kasia is deeply interested in wines of Eastern Europe where she comes from. Loves dill pickles, naturally. Na zdrowie!

Instagram: @kasia.sobiesiak

CURLY HASLAM-COATES
Curly has spent 25 years working in various consumer facing positions within the drinks industry; retail, hospitality, cellar door, events and education. A moment of impressive WSET academic success lead to the Vintners Bursary trip to Tasmania which changed her life.

Ten years on, she has moved to Tasmania and established Vintage Tasmania, an umbrella business which allows her to have a platform to focus on wine and spirits education, agri-tourism, inclusivity in the wine industry and children’s food literacy skills.

2019 brought nominations from the International Wine and Spirit Competition for International Wine Communicator of the Year and The Julian Brindles Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Wine Industry.

She is currently preparing herself for embarking on the Master of Wine journey. At present this involves designing and building a tiny home and daily Spanish study sessions..

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