About Australian Grape & Wine Inc
Membership Committees
Membership Committees
Australian Grape & Wine’s four Membership Committees meet separately and each nominates three representatives to the Board (marked * below).
All six state wine industry associations are represented on the Small Winemakers’ Membership Committee.
Small Winemakers’ Membership Committee
- *James March, Heathvale Vineyard (Chair) (South Australian Wine Industry Association)
- Leeanne Puglisi-Gangemi, Ballandean Estate Wines (Queensland Wine Industry Association)
- Larry Jorgensen (Wines of Western Australia)
- Rory Lane, The Story Wines (Wine Victoria)
- Mark Bourne (New South Wales Wine Industry Association)
- *Edward Swift, Printhie Wines (NSW)
- *Mary Hamilton, Hugh Hamilton Wines (SA)
- Nikki Palun, Octtava Wines (VIC)
- Rollo Crittenden, Crittenden Wines (VIC)
- David O’Leary, O’Leary Walker Wines (SA)
- Sarah McDougall, Lake George Winery (ACT)
- Chris Pfeiffer OAM, Pfeiffer Wines (VIC)
- Penny Dickeson, Cape Mentelle Vineyards (WA)
Medium Winemakers’ Membership Committee
- *Alister Purbrick, Tahbilk Pty Ltd (Chair)
- *Victoria Angove, Angove’s Pty Ltd
- *Simone Tierney, Zilzie Wines Pty Ltd
- Mitchell Taylor, Taylors Wines Pty Ltd
- Robert Hill Smith, Yalumba
- Darren Rathbone, Rathbone Wine Group
- Andrew Calabria, Calabria Wines
Large Winemakers’ Membership Committee
- *Jeff McCormack, Treasury Wine Estates (Chair)
- *Helen Strachan, Pernod Ricard Winemakers Pty Ltd
- *Luke Edwards, Casella Family Brands
Vigneron’s Membership Committee
- *Ashley Keegan, The FABAL Group Pty Ltd (Chair)
- *Adrian Hoffman, Independent Grower and Chair of Wine Grape Council of South Australia
- *Henry Crawford, Yallambee Agricultural Company Pty Ltd
- Sami Gilligan, The Wetlands Vineyard
- Dean Taylor, Taylors Farm Supplies
- Ben Crossing, Angullong Wines
- Tyson Lewis, Peninsula Vine Care Jenny Venus, Brad Case Consulting