CHAPTER 23 | 1980–1982 – Out of the Cold
Len P Evans and James Halliday, foreshadowing the screw cap age, New South Wales, 1980s. [Sally Evans Collection]
to 18.2 litres, thanks primarily to cask wine. Shortly, Australia’s export market would, to paraphrase James Halliday in A History of the Australian Wine Industry , take off like a rocket. Grass shoots emerged when Manchester-born Hazel Murphy, an employee of Austrade, organised the first all-Australian wine tasting for the wine trade in London. It would take some time to build a lasting fine wine agenda, but the following decades would prove to be glorious times for many imaginative and driven winemakers.
Len Evans, 1980s. [Sally Evans Collection]
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