Upcoming Tasmanian food and wine events of interest in 2023.

“Wine is a deeply creative and thoughtful pursuit. When it truly has your heart, it should reflect who and where you are as a person.” Natalie Fryar’s success in showcasing the beauty and goodness of Tasmania through her Sparkling wine brand Bellebonne has been built on a singular commitment of unerring proportions.

“This is me. This is what I stand for. I’ve given my all to do this.”

Discover how Pipers Brook, Kreglinger and the company’s sister labels are drawing on centuries-old European roots to set the tone for fine Tasmanian traditional winemaking in our latest Cellar Door Conversation.

Discover how 200 years of family history has led to a new, unique wine destination just outside of Hobart and not far from the iconic Derwent and Coal River Valley regions.

The son of northern Italian migrants, Steve Lubiana grew up on his parents’ winery in South Australia, where they settled in the 1950s after World War II. It instilled the love of winemaking in Steve, so much so that after he married his wife Monique, they spent their honeymoon scouting the landscapes of Tasmania for the prime location to follow their ambitions of making, simply, perfect wine.

Celebrating the women of the Tasmanian wine industry. Hear from business owners, winemakers and entrepreneurs who are breaking the bias and making a difference in this world.

Daring runs in the family at Moorilla – from the first seed planted by one of Tasmania’s winemaking pioneers nearly 65 years ago, to current owner David Walsh’s steadfast commitment to making his own rules. Learn about the history of Moorilla and the birth of one of Tasmania’s most unique wineries.

Funny man Merrick Watts was in Tasmania recently for his Grapes of Mirth comedy festival. But there’s more to the man and certainly more to the story of how he came to join our blind-tasting at Wines of Tasmania HQ in Launceston.

“Our philosophy is to produce the best and healthiest fruit with the least-invasive management practices possible. This involves using a scientific approach based on understanding the ecology of the vineyard and deploying the most effective and sustainable practices.”

Recipient of Australia’s first PhD in viticulture, Dr Andrew Pirie has built his phenomenal success in Australia’s wine industry (spanning five decades, global award wins, and an Order of Australia) on a commitment to science.

Find out more about the success story of Apogee that started in 2010.

From the outset, Meadowbank Wines has had a legacy of challenging expectations. Known today as one of the most celebrated vineyards in Tasmania, Meadowbank’s property was initially a sheep farm. When founder Gerald Ellis carved out a relative handful of acres to grow grapes, many deemed the project doomed to failure – claiming Tasmania’s climate too hostile for such crops. Read more about how the Ellis family challenged the norm - while keeping family at the core of its story.

We caught up with the owners of Utzinger Wines on site at their newly constructed winery in the Tamar Valley. There’s more than meets the eye to this sweet couple who met while travelling in the Middle East and found their happily ever after on a vineyard in Tasmania.

WELLINGTON & WOLFE is the brainchild of Hugh McCullough. It started with one distinct grape variety in mind. Riesling.

Born in the USA, raised in the UK, Hugh studied modern history in Scotland after leaving high school. But his love of history shifted to a love of Riesling while working in the hospitality industry. And so his journey to Australia, and eventually Tasmania, began. Read more.

Meet Greer Carland. Winemaker and owner of Quiet Mutiny. Greer's wine company may be relatively new but she has a long history of working in the Tasmanian wine industry, having made hundreds of wines for various contract clients over a 12 year period. The inspiration behind Quiet Mutiny comes from the wine label's namesake "Charlotte Badger" who took her destiny in her own hands in 1806. Deciding to start her own wine company was a brave and ambitious step for Greer, but like Charlotte, Greer was determined to choose her own destiny, and the rest, as they say, is history.

“…Tasmania’s leading wineries have come together to launch the Wines of Tasmania online wine store. The platform offers monthly subscription boxes featuring premium Tasmanian wines, which have been blind-tasted and chosen by industry experts to feature on the site...”

As featured in the latest issue of Gourmet Traveller WINE (December/January 2021). Link within.

Meet Ricky Evans. Owner and winemaker at Two Tonne Tasmania (TTT Wine). His career to date has seen him making wine in the corporate world, then branching out to lease and manage a number of vineyards, and, as of 2020, he now co-owns and manages @HavilahWine Bar in Launceston. His simple desire: sharing the beauty and complexity of Tasmanian wine culture with the widest array of people possible

MARION’S VINEYARD: It’s been a long and varied journey for Cynthea Semmens, co-owner and winemaker of Marion’s Vineyard. To Semmens, there is always more to learn about the practice and culture of winemaking.

We’ve received some great press coverage lately. Check out the source links to read more.

A great article by journalist Mark Smith about the Wines of Tasmania business and Founder/CEO, Katrina Myburgh. Published in The Examiner on November 8, 2020. Full article link within.

Wines of Tasmania Founder and CEO, Katrina Myburgh, together with Company Director and Owner of Holm Oak, Bec Duffy, talk to Sarah Abbott from ABC Radio Country Hour about how Wines of Tasmania was conceived during 2020 when the COVID19 pandemic hit and Tasmania’s border closed, impacting cellar door sales for many of Tasmania’s wine brands.

MEWSTONE: Meet Matthew Hughes, co-owner of one of Tasmania’s most exciting new wine brands, Mewstone Wines. Together with his brother Jonny, the winemaker, these two were perhaps the most unlikely of four Hughes brothers to strike up a partnership – but then again, maybe it was always meant to be as the oldest and youngest were indeed a formidable team in the endless hours of backyard cricket.