Winemaker Justin Purser has a terrific reign at Best’s chief winemaker before heading out on his own to establish Purser Wines.
This image was taken at Great Western while he was making the wines at Best’s. We have a very old bottle of Best’s something or other on the table in front of us. Black and white wins the day again but then, so too does natural-window-side-light.
This image was shot on a Fujifilm X-T3 with the original XF35mm f1.4 lens, shot at f2.
This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.
Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.
Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.
