Membership Committees

Australian Grape & Wine’s  four Membership Committees meet separately and each nominates four representatives to the Board (marked * below).

All six state wine industry associations are represented on the  Small Winemakers’ Membership Committee. 

Diversity, Equality & Inclusion in Wine (DEIW) are positions created specifically in the small winemaker category to encourage women into leadership roles in the grape and wine sector.

Small Winemakers’ Membership Committee

• *Anna Fisher, (South Australian Wine Industry Association) (Chair)
• *Mark Bourne (New South Wales Wine Industry Association)
• *Rory Lane, The Story Wines (Wine Victoria)
• *Nick James-Martin, Wines of Merritt (WA)
• *Ashleigh Seymour, Paxton Wines (SA) (Alternate Director)
• Samantha Isherwood, Tarra Warra Estate/ (DEIW)
• Kelly Pearson, Lady Garden Wines/(DEIW)
• Nicole Samadol, Rowlee Wines (NSW)
• Chris Pfeiffer OAM, Pfeiffer Wines (VIC)
• Marco Gjergja, Port Phillip Estate (VIC)
• Leeanne Puglisi-Gangemi (Queensland Wine Industry Association)
• Cameron Rhodes (Wines of Western Australia)
• Jake Sheedy (Wine Tasmania)

Medium Winemakers’ Membership Committee

• Mitchell Taylor, Taylors Wines Pty Ltd (Chair)
• *Victoria Angove, Angove’s Pty Ltd
• *Darren Rathbone, Rathbone Wine Group
• *Andrew Santarossa, Gapsted Wines
• *Andrew Calabria, Calabria Wines (Alternate Director)
• Alister Purbrick, Tahbilk Pty Ltd
• Robert Hill Smith, Yalumba Family Wines

Large Winemakers’ Membership Committee

• *Luke Edwards, Casella Family Brands (Chair)
• *Jeff McCormack, Treasury Wine Estates
• *Helen Strachan, Pernod Ricard Winemakers Pty Ltd
• *Alicia Morris, Australian Vintage

Vigneron’s Membership Committee

• *Ashley Keegan, The FABAL Group Pty Ltd (Chair)
• *Adrian Hoffmann, Independent Grower and Chair of Wine Grape Council of South Australia
• *Henry Crawford, Yallambee Agricultural Company Pty Ltd
• *Jenny Venus, Brad Case Consulting
• *Tyson Lewis, Peninsula Vine Care (Alternate Director)
• Nick Price, Prices Wines
• John Hardy, Lower Tintara Vineyard