Here's to great Aussie bottlers

Jan 25 2011

Jeni Port toasts some true-blue achievers who tickled our patriotic palate in the past year

For services to Australian wine: Tim Adams, winemaker

You're just starting out in wine and you land a cellar-rat job with one of the great Australian winemakers and gentlemen, Mick Knappstein. It's 1975. The winery is the (already) historic Leasingham in Clare. Fast forward to 2010. Leasingham is no more, closed by Constellation Wines and in disrepair. The former cellar rat buys it and announces plans for a new wine range, Mr Mick's. Happy ending,. Take a bow, Mr Adams.

The Age, Jeni Port