Membership Committees

Australian Grape & Wine’s four Membership Committees meet separately and each nominates representatives to the Board (marked * below).

State wine industry associations are represented on the  Small Winemakers’ Membership Committee. 

Diversity, Equality & Inclusion in Wine (DEIW) are positions created specifically in the small winemaker category to encourage women into leadership roles in the grape and wine sector.

Small Winemakers’ Membership Committee

• *Anna Fisher, Zonte’s Footstep (Chair)
• *Mark Bourne (New South Wales Wine Industry Association)
• *Rory Lane (Wine Victoria) (Alternate Director)
• Nick James-Martin, Wines of Merritt
• Ashleigh Seymour, Vino Selvatico
• Samantha Isherwood, Tarra Warra Estate (DEIW)
• Kelly Pearson, Lady Garden Wines (DEIW)
• Jeff Aston, Tractorless Vineyards
• Chris Pfeiffer OAM, Pfeiffer Wines
• Marco Gjergja, Port Phillip Estate
• Leeanne Puglisi-Gangemi (Queensland Wine Industry Association)
• Jake Sheedy (Wine Tasmania)
• Dan Eggleton, Ben Murray Wines
• Tom Keelan (South Australian Wine Industry Association)  

Medium Winemakers’ Membership Committee

• *Mitchell Taylor, Taylors Wines Pty Ltd (Chair)
• *Darren Rathbone, Rathbone Wine Group
• *Andrew Calabria, Calabria Wines (Alternate Director)
• Victoria Angove, Angove’s Pty Ltd
• Alister Purbrick, Tahbilk Pty Ltd
• Robert Hill Smith, Hill-Smith Family Estates

Large Winemakers’ Membership Committee

• *Luke Edwards, Casella Family Brands (Chair)
• *Imogen Gardiner, Treasury Wine Estates
• Tegan Flanagan, Vinarchy (Observer)

Vigneron’s Membership Committee

• *Henry Crawford, Yallambee Agricultural Company Pty Ltd (Chair)
• *Adrian Hoffmann, Independent Grower and Chair of Wine Grape Council of South Australia
• *Jenny Venus, Brad Case Consulting (Alternate Director)
• Ashley Keegan, The FABAL Group Pty Ltd
• Tyson Lewis, Peninsula Vine Care
• Nick Price, Prices Wines
• John Hardy, Lower Tintara Vineyard