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Tom Wallace
Gourmet Traveller
|September 2024
We share a drop with the head winemaker for Devil's Corner, Tamar Ridge and Pirie Sparkling, a master of cool-climate grapes.

How did you come to love wine?
I was a late starter into the wine world. I went to the UK on the classic antipodean overseas experience and worked with wine in restaurants where we tasted regularly. I then took a leap and completed a Diploma in Winemaking & Viticulture in Gisborne, New Zealand. It was a very hands-on course with a commercial winery and as soon as I stepped into the winery and handled the grapes, I knew I had found my calling.
A wine that changed your life?
This story is from the September 2024 edition of Gourmet Traveller.
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