Tell us in a few sentences about your experience as a viticulturist, how did you arrive here? After arriving in Australia from Scotland in 2006, it didn’t take long for my wife and I to develop a keen interest in the wine industry and our beautiful, South Australian wine regions. Not knowing many people in Adelaide, we spent our first …
Meet the National EcoGrowers 2023 to 2025
Jessica Worrall
Roje Estates / Firetail Wines
Tell us in a few sentences about your experience as a viticulturist, how did you arrive here? The last 20 years in viticulture has been wonderful exploration, after my first 20 years as an engineer in Oil & Gas production. Viticulture and producing wine, provides a rare opportunity to combine both science and art. Each vintage is a project within …
Meet the National EcoGrowers 2023 to 2025
Andrew George and Sarah Crowe
Yarra Yering
Tell us in a few sentences about your experience as a viticulturist, how did you arrive here? After I left high school I went to Dookie College, where I did Production Horticulture specialising in Viticulture. Not long after finishing my course I got my first job at Yeringberg where I worked for 13 years, I was briefly at Seville Estate …
Meet the National EcoGrowers 2023 to 2025
Kerri Thompson and Brendan Pudney
Skillogalee Estate
Tell us in a few sentences about your experience as a viticulturist, how did you arrive here? Wines by KT (Kerri Thompson and Brendan Pudney) have been contracted to Skillogalee Estate to manage the Viticulture and Winemaking since June 2021 and the EcoVineyards project has been included as part of this management. Between the two of us we share 5 …
Meet the National EcoGrowers 2023 to 2025
Stuart Marshall
Port Phillip Estate / Kooyong Wines
Tell us in a few sentences about your experience as a viticulturist, how did you arrive here? I have been a viticulturist for close to 30 years. I’ve worked on the Mornington Peninsula and the Yarra Valley and have visited many different regions around the world. Nothing beats the Mornington Peninsula lifestyle. Why did you decide to apply to be …
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Nicole Esdaile
Centare Vineyard
Tell us in a few sentences about your experience as a viticulturist, how did you arrive here? I’m actually a winemaker & consultant rather than a viticulturalist but engaged via Wine Network Consulting by the owner of Centare Vineyard, Simon Li, when he purchased the property in 2018. The property had an existing vineyard – with ‘Old Block’ vines that …
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Dick Bryksy
Taylors Wines
Vale Ben Mitchell Ben Mitchell passed way in March 2024 after a short illness. He joined the EcoVineyards family as an EcoGrower for Taylors Wines in July 2022 and later moving on to work at Paulett Wines. Ben was a well-respected viticulturist from the Clare Valley, with a passion for reducing the use of synthetic pesticides, reducing our carbon footprint, and …
Meet the EcoGrowers 2019 to 2023
Greg Horner
Mt Bera Winery
1. Tell us about your experience in grape growing? We have been growing grapes at Mt Bera since 2008, and started with no viticultural knowledge but had a very strong desire to not use synthetic chemicals, so immediately converted to growing organically. We purchased an undervine mower, raised all the dripper lines, went on many courses including Elaine Ingham’s Soil …
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Chris Mein
Longview Vineyard
Tell us in a few sentences about your experience as a viticulturist, how did you arrive here? Longview was planted in 1997 and since then it has provided fruit not only for its own wine label, but it has also served as a high-quality fruit source for many of the region’s top producers. Today Longview grows ten varieties with a …
Meet the National EcoGrowers 2023-2025
Nathan Forman
Howard Vineyard
Tell us in a few sentences about your experience as a viticulturist, how did you arrive here? I started in the wine industry as cellar hand for a large commercial scale wine company and studied a Bachelor of Viticulture and Oenology with a view to becoming a Winemaker. I very quickly became dissatisfied with that position. Knowing that grape and …