Editorial team
Hans Mick
Coming from a rural background in Queensland and the Northern Territory, Hans’ journalism career spans more than two decades. A reporter for ABC Queensland for almost a decade, he’s also worked in editorial roles at a number of other media organisations including the Seven Network, SBS and NITV. He’s travelled across Australia and internationally in search of a good story, with resulting documentaries screening on network television. Among these was an indigenous themed travel series focusing on First Nations communities in Canada.
As editor of the Grapegrower & Winemaker, Hans has visited numerous wine regions from Margaret River to Orange, NSW, with many in between, to learn first-hand about the issues affecting grape and wine producers.
Meg Riley
Meg is a journalist and creative writer from the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. Her writing has been published in Mascara Literary Review, and broadcast on Radio Adelaide, and she was awarded the Peter Davies Memorial Prize for Creative Writing in 2021. Working as a contractor with Adelaide Hills Vine Improvement, and a vineyard hand at Henschke in the Adelaide Hills and Barossa Valley, Meg had already developed a strong interest in the local wine industry before joining Winetitles in 2023.
As part of the editorial team for Grapegrower & Winemaker and Daily Wine News, Meg has travelled to grapegrowing and winemaking regions across South Australia and Victoria to cover breaking news stories and understand the concerns of rural communities.
Editorial panel
The Grapegrower & Winemaker is assisted by a panel of highly-regarded industry personnel, who sit on the magazine’s Editorial Advisory Panel.
They are Denis Gastin, Dr Steve Goodman, Paul van der Lee, Mary Retallack and Corrina Wright.
The members of the panel help to ensure the Grapegrower & Winemaker is packed with information that provides new and relevant knowledge as well as market insights for our readers.
Corrina Wright grew up in her family vineyards in McLaren Vale. Corrina enrolled in a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Oenology) in 1993. In 1997, she was granted a scholarship from Southcorp Wines and Adelaide University to study for a year at the University of California – Davis. She graduated from the prestigious Len Evans Tutorial in 2005, and continues to chair, panel chair and judge at numerous wine shows around Australia. Corrina serves on a number of national, state and local industry boards.
Denis Gastin is managing director of Instate Pty Ltd. He has extensive wine-related interests, including writing for Japan’s liquor-industry newspaper, The Shuhan News and Wine Review magazine in Korea. He contributes the Asia content to The Oxford Companion to Wine, The World Atlas of Wine and Wine Report. Denis is also a regular writer for Grapegrower & Winemaker.
Mary Retallack is a third generation viticulturist with her career over the past 17 years encompassing vineyard management, technical, research, consultancy, training and extension roles.
She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors course, a Fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, a past participant of the Future Leaders and a past non-executive director of the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation. Currently managing director of Retallack Viticulture, and a director of the Wine Australia board. Retallack is also the 2012 recipient of the RIRDC South Australian Rural Women’s Award.
Paul van der lee is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Adelaide Business School, where he supports the Master of Wine Business program. He is also principal of the strategy consulting business Van der Lee & Associates and was the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia manager, economics and policy. His extensive experience covers related areas of taxation, economic policy and grapegrower policy initiatives.
Dr Steve Goodman is a senior lecturer in marketing and program director of Higher Degrees by Research at the University of Adelaide. His research involves wine choice and supply-chain decision-making. He also supervises a number of Honours and PhD students in wine-related topics including tourism, cellar door, servicescapes, social media and management strategy.
