Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker - Editorial

Editorial team

In September 2010, Grapegrower & Winemaker welcomed Jennifer Barwick to the editor’s chair. Jennifer has a solid communications and regional news journalist background and is a highly valued addition to the Winetitles team.

Kellie Arbuckle joined the Grapegrower & Winemaker team in February 2011 with a background working in Adelaide's leading metropolitan newspaper, The Advertiser and experience contributing to a range of publications.

Editorial panel

The Grapegrower & Winemaker is ably assisted by a panel of highly-regarded and accomplished industry persons, who sit on the magazine’s Editorial Advisory Panel.
They are Dr Jim Fortune, Dr Steve Goodman, Dr Sue Bastian, Dr Terry Lee, Professor Jim Hardie, Paul van der Lee and Denis Gastin.

The members of the panel have direct input to the magazine’s editor and management, assisting us in ensuring Grapegrower & Winemaker is packed with information that provides new and relevant knowledge and market insights for our thousands of valued readers.

Denis Gastin is managing director of Instate Pty Ltd. He has extensive wine-related interests, including writing for Japan’s liquor-industry newspaper, The Shuhan News and Wine Review magazine in Korea. He contributes the Asia content to The Oxford Companion to Wine, The World Atlas of Wine and Wine Report. Denis is a regular writer for Grapegrower & Winemaker as well.

Dr Sue Bastian is lecturer in oenology and sensory studies; and manager sensory research laboratory at The University of Adelaide. In addition, she is owner of Adelaide Hills winemaker, Bastian West Wines.

Dr Steve Goodman is senior lecturer, University of Adelaide Business School. He has particular expertise in marketing, cellar door, consumer purchase behaviours and on and off-premise consumer retail trends in Australia and overseas.

Dr Jim Fortune is best known to the wine industry as the former executive director of the GWRDC. Completing this position during 2007, more recently he has been enjoying “spreading his wings” back to broader agriculture and the wine industry as a consultant.

Professor Jim Hardie is the director of the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, based at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. He also carries out the role of professor for Winegrowing Innovations and his research interests include evolutionary biology of the grapevine, ultrastructure of the grape, grapevine water relations and grapevine rootstocks and vineyard soil management.

Dr Terry Lee, who in 2004 retired from the position of vice president and chief scientific officer of one of the largest family-owned wineries in the United States, Gallo Winery, in Modesto California. Prior to this position he was director at The Australian Wine Research Institute for 14 years. He is a Patron of the Australian wine industry, and for his service to the Australian wine industry he has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal. He currently sits on the board at the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation (GWRDC), and several other wine industry committees. Dr Lee holds a BSc and PhD in Food Technology from The University of New South Wales and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Paul van der lee holds the current role of Winemakers’ Federation of Australia manager, economics and policy. Van der Lee’s extensive experience in the industry and related commercial, strategy and policy roles drive’s the national wine body’s direction in the areas of taxation, economic policy and grapegrower policy initiatives. Prior to joining WFA, he was principal of the strategy consulting business Van der Lee & Associates.