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 Terry Lee, Professor Jim Hardie, Paul van der Lee and Denis Gastin, Mary Retallack, Professor Dennis Taylor and Bob Campbell MW

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 also a regular writer for Grapegrower & Winemaker.

Dr Steve Goodman is a senior lecturer in marketing and program director of Higher Degrees by Research at the University of Adelaide. His research involves wine choice and supply-chain decision-making.He also supervises a number of Honours and PhD students in wine-related topics including tourism, cellar door, servicescapes, social media and management strategy.

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, 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. 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. In 2004, he 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.

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.

Professor Dennis Taylor began his academic and research career at Flinders University in 1985. After completing his B.Sc (Hons, first class) and receiving a University Medal for his efforts, he remained at Flinders to complete his PhD in the field of organic chemistry. He then travelled to Texas to work with the Nobel laureate, the late Sir Derek Barton, and quickly rose to become 2IC of the large Barton Group. Upon his return to Australia, he took up a position as lecturer at the University of Adelaide. In 2006, he moved to the Waite campus to take up the position of Chair and Professor of Oenology. He has been very active in research, and has published in excess of 100 scientific papers.

Bob Campbell MW, is New Zealand's leading wine educator, international wine judge and New Zealand wine editor for several consumer publications. In 1990, Campbell founded The Wine Gallery, the Auckland-based wine school which has helped educate more than 21,000 eager wine consumers.

Mary Retallack, is a third generation viticulturist with her career over the past 17 years encompassing vineyard management, technical, research, consultancy, training and extension roles.
She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors course, a Fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, a past participant of the Future Leaders and a past non-executive director of the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation. Currently managing director of Retallack Viticulture, and about to embark on a PhD at The University of Adelaide, Retallack is also the 2012 recipient of the RIRDC South Australian Rural Women's Award.