{"id":391,"date":"2023-10-03T08:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2025-11-01T04:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:10:33","slug":"virginia-willcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Willcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Virginia Willcock \u2013 Chief Winemaker \u2013 Vasse Felix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, Virginia saw the happiness and joy wine brought to her parents and their friends after a hard day\u2019s work in their small vineyard. It was here she decided winemaking was going to be her career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chief-Winemaker-Virginia-Willcock_Credit-Wine-Australia-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-392 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chief-Winemaker-Virginia-Willcock_Credit-Wine-Australia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chief-Winemaker-Virginia-Willcock_Credit-Wine-Australia-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chief-Winemaker-Virginia-Willcock_Credit-Wine-Australia-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chief-Winemaker-Virginia-Willcock_Credit-Wine-Australia-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chief-Winemaker-Virginia-Willcock_Credit-Wine-Australia-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chief-Winemaker-Virginia-Willcock_Credit-Wine-Australia-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Virginia has completed 26 vintages in Margaret River, and worked international vintages in Albania, Northern Italy, Sicily, Abruzzo and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia is one of the most awarded female winemakers in Australia, having been named \u2018Gourmet Traveller WINE Australian Winemaker of the Year\u2019 in 2012 (she was also a finalist in 2010) and \u2018Winemaker of the Year\u2019 by The West Australian Good Wine Guide<br \/>\n2013. Virginia was also nominated as \u2018Winemaker of the Year\u2019 in Wine Enthusiast Magazine USA\u2019s 2014 Wine Star Awards, \u2018Winemaker of the Year\u2019 in the ASVO (Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology) Award for excellence 2016, and \u2018Winemaker of the<br \/>\nYear\u2019 in the 2017 Australian Women in Wine Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Willcock \u2013 Chief Winemaker \u2013 Vasse Felix As a teenager, Virginia saw the happiness and joy wine brought to her parents and their friends after a hard day\u2019s work in their small vineyard. It was here she decided winemaking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/?p=391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judge-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}