Winepilot Brand Kit

OUR PILOTS

JENI PORT

ANGUS HUGHSON Angus 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. KEN GARGETT Ken 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. ANNETTE LACEY MW Annette 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. SHANTEH WALE Shanteh 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.

RAY JORDAN 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. Jeni Port is one of Australia's top wine communicators and judges. Based in Melbourne, Jeni was the longest-serving wine writer on The Age newspaper and continues to write for most Australian wine magazines including Wine Selector and 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 was named Legend of the Vine. TOM KLINE Tom Kline is a prolific and award winning wine communicator and contributes to Decanter, Wine Spectator and Halliday Wine Companion, while also a WSET educator and tutor of self-authored wine courses. Having grown up in north east Victoria’s King Valley wine region with a wine educator father, Tom caught the wine bug early.