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Tastoria is a great way to spend an evening. Everyone gets involved in the wine, food and excitement of the event. Key to this seems to be picking great wines and that has been done by the CEO - Catherine. Go Tastoria! Great idea! Excellent service and product!
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Steve Smith
Craggy Range Winery
I have been in the wine business since 1980. As a specialist viticulturist, I spent my research c...
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www.craggyrange.com
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Favourite Red Wines:
Bordeaux Left Bank particularly Latour and recent vinetage of Leoville Barton
Favourite White Wines:
White Burgundy and Mosel Riesling
Hobbies:
armchair lover of many sports play a few but all badly.,
Fooling around in the surf at my beach house with my kids,
teasing Australians
Books I've read / am reading:
Bill Bryson and Carl Hiassen,
Magazine hoarder as long as it is not trash,
spy novels,
the humour of Spike Milligan
Bordeaux Left Bank particularly Latour and recent vinetage of Leoville Barton
Favourite White Wines:
White Burgundy and Mosel Riesling
Hobbies:
armchair lover of many sports play a few but all badly.,
Fooling around in the surf at my beach house with my kids,
teasing Australians
Books I've read / am reading:
Bill Bryson and Carl Hiassen,
Magazine hoarder as long as it is not trash,
spy novels,
the humour of Spike Milligan
My Wine Bio
Name:
Steve Smith
Steve Smith
Gender: Male
Occupation: Wine and Viticulture Director & Managing Director, Craggy Range
Wine epiphany: 1990 Latour out of barrel at Latour a sample specially prepared for me.
Memorable wine experience: Sitting and passing the Master of Wine
Funniest wine experience: Completely cocking up my own wine in a blind options tasting and declaring I would jump naked in the hotel swimming pool if it was mine. It was and I did with one pair of clothing still in place!
Death-bed Wine: 1961 Chateau Latour, tasted once and can still taste it.
My Vineyard: Craggy Range Winery
Wine hero: Len Evans
Gender:
Male
Occupation:
Wine and Viticulture Director & Managing Director, Craggy Range
Wine epiphany:
1990 Latour out of barrel at Latour a sample specially prepared for me.
Memorable wine experience:
Sitting and passing the Master of Wine
Funniest wine experience:
Completely cocking up my own wine in a blind options tasting and declaring I would jump naked in the hotel swimming pool if it was mine. It was and I did with one pair of clothing still in place!
Death-bed Wine:
1961 Chateau Latour, tasted once and can still taste it.
My Vineyard:
Craggy Range Winery
Wine hero:
Len Evans
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About Me
I have been in the wine business since 1980. As a specialist viticulturist, I spent my research career with Dr Richard Smart, pioneering the new viticultural techniques now used in many regions of the world. I have published numerous academic and popular papers during this time and was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Scholarship in 1985 to study grapevine virus diseases in California. In 1996 I became a Master of Wine, the only specialist viticulturist in the world to have this distinction, now regarded as the pinnacle of academic achievement in the industry. During this time I worked for Villa Maria Estate as Group Viticulturist, playing a significant role in the company’s high quality reputation.
Together, with the Peabody family in 1997, we created Craggy Range.
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