{"id":623,"date":"2025-11-01T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/?p=623"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:14:28","slug":"623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"David Brookes"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Brookes<\/h1>\n
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David Brookes is a freelance wine journalist of 20 years experience and covers Tasmania and the Barossa & Eden Valleys for the annual Halliday Wine Companion. He is a regular contributor to Wine Companion and Selector magazines and his work has appeared in Wine Enthusiast, Wine & Spirits, Gourmet Traveller WINE, The Adelaide Review and Cuisine magazines plus Fairfax media and Emirates and Qantas inflight magazines.
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\nOriginally from North Canterbury, New Zealand, David was based in the Barossa Valley for 12 years and now resides in Northern New South Wales.<\/p>\n

With 30 years in the wine industry his experience spans retail, wholesale, winery, secondary market (Sydney Auction Manager at Langtons for 4 years) + brand management and he is a current selection panel member for the Bordeaux-based \u201cGreat Wine Capitals\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n

He was awarded Dux of the Len Evans Tutorial in 2011 and is a sought-after judge on the Australian and international wine show circuit having judged at 100+ wine shows around the world including chair positions at the Margaret River Wine Show, NSW Wine Awards, Concurs Mondial de Bruxelles and seven years as co-chair\/chief editor from the WINE 100 challenge in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Brookes David Brookes is a freelance wine journalist of 20 years experience and covers Tasmania and the Barossa & Eden Valleys for the annual Halliday Wine Companion. He is a regular contributor to Wine Companion and Selector magazines and … Continue reading →<\/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-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judge-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taswineshow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}