Greg Melick
Greg has been a passionate consumer of wine for over 50 years and has visited many vineyards throughout the world. He has worn many other hats: Senior Counsel; Major General in the Australian Defence Force in a career spanning 50 years; a national and international wine judge; a Master Judge of Wine and one of the few Australians to hold a passport from the Primum Familae Vinum. With a remarkable palate memory (now, he says, fading with Winezheimers) Greg has been know to correctly name, in a blind tasting, a wine by having read about it alone.
As busy as Greg is in his first careers, he is committed and passionate about producing quality Tasmanian Riesling and Pinot Noir and, in his words, ‘runs interference’ in key aspects of the vineyard. His two favourite wine growing areas are Mosel and Burgundy. Hence, the vineyard has been planted with the two ‘Noble’ varieties Riesling and Pinot Noir.
Greg is married to his second love Michelle (his first love, he famously once said in her presence, was ‘wine’) and has 3 adult children. Amazingly he has time for a wife and family but, sadly, the children don’t drink wine so he’s still working on the succession plan.
Michelle Melick
Tom Wald
Tom joined the Pressing Matters team in August 2018 and works hard in the vineyard not only doing viticulture tasks such as planting and pruning but also assists wine-maker Samantha Connew in the winery. Tom is pictured here on one of the mulitple pressing days during vintage working on the 2019 pinot noir.