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Winemaker - Ben Riggs

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Winemaker - Ben Riggs

Ben Riggs

Ben Riggs is a native of McLaren Vale and has been crafting some of the region’s finest for two decades. Ben knows his stuff and where to get it – his roster of grape growers is one of the most sought after contact lists in the country. Premium regions produce the best fruit and the grapes come from a “who’s who” of Australian growers and viticultural neighborhoods – Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Langhorne Creek, Adelaide Hills and Heathcote.

Ben is the winemaker for two new Australian brands represented in the Old Bridge Cellars portfolio, Shoofly and Zonte’s Footstep. After 14 years as winemaker at Wirra Wirra, and another six at various Australian wineries as well as northern hemisphere vintages in the Napa Valley, Bordeaux, Greece, Italy and the south of France, Ben also acts as consulting winemaker to Penny's Hill, Pertaringa, Coriole and Geoff Hardy, while keeping his hand in consulting for Cazal Viel in the south of France and for UK-based distributor, Western Wines.