Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson is a multi-award winning writer. He won the Best Australian Sports Writing Award in 1996, the Independent Young Writer of the Year Award in 1995, and the prestigious NSW Wine Press Club Wine Communicator Award in both 2005 and 2007. The author of the award-winning book Wine Hunter: The Man Who Changed Australian Wine, a biography of Hunter Valley winemaking legend Maurice O'Shea and Why The French Hate Us: The Real Story of Australian Wine (Hardie Grant), in May 2008 he will release The Big Red Wine Book (Hardie Grant). He is a columnist for Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine.

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The winner of the Australia's Wine List of the Year Award will receive:

• Two return airline tickets to Europe
• A specially engraved champagne cooler
• Additional publicity in Australian lifestyle magazines, major newspapers, liquor trade publications, food and wine guides and on-line

The 2008 Wine List of the Year award winners have been announced. Click here to download the full list of winners.