JENI PORT is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion . She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
KEN GARGETT mostly writes on wine, Champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work as the longest serving wine writer for The Courier Mail and as the Australian wine correspondent for The World of Fine Wine .
RAY JORDAN is one of Australia’s most experienced wine writers. He has been writing about wine for more than 40 years and was Wine Editor for Seven West Media, with a long- standing column in The West Australian . He also has been writing his influential annual guide to West Australian wines since 2003.
SHANTEH WALE was the Head Sommelier at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant for a number of years and has recently been added to the Halliday Wine Companion tasting panel and launched her own podcast, Over a Glass .
ANGUS HUGHSON is an award-winning wine writer and the Founder and Publisher of Winepilot, the Australian Editor for leading international publication VINOUS based in New York City and the Co-Publisher of The Australian Ark with over 15 years of publishing, writing and judging experience.
ANNETTE LACEY MW is currently the Group Beverage Manager for Solotel. She passed the Master of Wine Program in 2020, was a winner of the 2014 Vin de Champagne Award, is a Len Evans Scholar and regular wine judge.
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