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 was the winner of the prestigious NSW Wine Press Club Wine Communicator Award in both 2004 and 2006. He was a finalist at the World Food Media Awards in both 2003 and 2005, and his fictional short stories have appeared in many publications, including the annual anthology Best Australian Short Stories.

In 2006 he released the book Wine Hunter: The Man Who Changed Australian Wine, a biography of the Hunter Valley winemaking legend Maurice O'Shea. The book won the NSW Wine Press Club Wine Communicator Award and was described by James Halliday as ‘one of the most remarkable wine books to ever come my way’.
 
Campbell is an original and very clever rising star in the world of wine. His words on wine appear regularly in such magazines as The Bulletin and Gourmet Traveller WINE and he has been publisher of The Wine Front since 2002. In 2007 he published the book Why The French Hate Us: The Real Story of Australian Wine and is the author of the annual The Big Red Wine Book.