About the author
Campbell Mattinson is an Australian writer and editor. He’s the editor and chief writer of James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine, is a reviewer for the best-selling annual Wine Companion book, is the Australian correspondent for Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Guide, and since 2002 has been the publisher of the winefront.com.au website. He was the winner of the 1996 Best Australian Sports Writing Award, the 1995 Independent Young Writer of the Year Award, and has twice been named the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year (2005 and 2007). He lives, with his family, on a rural block of land a long way from anywhere.