澳洲酒庄介绍：Wirra Wirra (McLaren Vale)

酿酒师： Paul Smith

Paul Smith在获得农业科学的荣誉学位后，决定自己的未来应该在酿酒事业中。在完成研究生学业之后，他投身到酿酒师生涯，为南澳大利亚的多家主要酒庄作出了重要的贡献。

起先，Paul在克莱尔谷的纳普斯坦酒窖工作，在那他对凉爽气候白葡萄酒产生了浓厚的兴趣，尤其是由葡萄之路酿酒师Brian Croser 和格雷策酿酒师Jeffery Grosset酿造的雷司令；之后成为了纳普斯坦酒庄的首席酿酒师。

2008年，Paul加入了迈拉伦维尔的标志性酒庄－威拿，在那他领导着威拿的酿酒团队，并酿造出该地区的一些顶级佳酿。

THE WINEMAKER: Paul Smith

Paul Smith completed an Honours degree in Agricultural Science before deciding that his true future lay in winemaking. After completing post-graduate studies he embarked on a career that has seen him make important contributions at some of South Australia’s leading wineries. Paul began as a cellar-hand at Knappstein in the Clare Valley, explored his growing interest in cool climate white wines, particularly Riesling under Brian Croser at Petaluma and Jeffery Grosset at Grosset Wines before becoming Chief Winemaker back at Knappstein. In 2008 Paul joined iconic McLaren Vale producer Wirra Wirra where he is now oversees a winemaking team crafting some of the regions very best wines.

THE WINERY: Wirra Wirra, McLaren Vale

Wirra Wirra a modern-day Camelot - an historic estate, enclosed by an imposing set of gates, with a fabled story that is surrounded in as much myth as it is reality! The name, taken from the local aboriginal language and meaning “among the gum trees”, was given to the property established in 1894 by the eccentric businessman Robert Strangways Wrigley. The winery was abandoned after his death in 1925 and lay dormant until the equally eccentric and visionary Gregg Trott set out to bring it back to life. Since then Wirra Wirra has established itself at the forefront of a rejuvenated and revitalized McLaren Vale.