Life Membership Tony Smith 2019
TONY SMITH WILL BE AWARDED LIFE MEMBERSHIP OF MOUNT BARKER WINE PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION ON ‘NATIONAL WINE DAY 25TH MAY 2019’
It has been long overdue, but the Mount Barker Wine Producers Association will award Tony Smith Life Membership, highlighting a very prestigious career pioneering a new wine region and industry.
Tony Smith, formally of Plantagenet Wines, in 1973 was a founding member and first president of the Lower Great Southern Wine Growers Assoc which became the Mount Barker Wine Producers Assoc. Tony helped develop the wine industry to what it is today. He helped form the Mount Barker Wine Show, now known as the Wine Show of Western Australia, still held in Mount Barker every year.
Tony holds many awards for his work in the wine industry and for developing the Great Southern wine industry. He was part of the group that officially recognised the Great Southern and the 5 sub regions of Mount Barker, Porongurup, Frankland, Albany and Denmark regionally for Wine Australia..
Tony as General Manager of Plantagenet Wines was the first to bring a technically trained winemaker to the region and brought new innovation to the winery as the industry involved.
“One of my favourite stories about Tony is when he brought the old stainless-steel tanks from the whaling station when it shut down in 1978. Hosing out all the oil and fat making it clean and ready for wine. Stainless steel was very innovative in the winery in those days and to come from another local industry that closed down shows the ingenuity and hard work of those pioneering days.” quotes Vice President Kim Tyrer
Other Mount Barker Wine Producers Association Life Members include Betty Quick formally of Forrest Hill and Ian Tyrer of Galafrey Wines.
It has been long overdue, but the Mount Barker Wine Producers Association will award Tony Smith Life Membership, highlighting a very prestigious career pioneering a new wine region and industry.
Tony Smith, formally of Plantagenet Wines, in 1973 was a founding member and first president of the Lower Great Southern Wine Growers Assoc which became the Mount Barker Wine Producers Assoc. Tony helped develop the wine industry to what it is today. He helped form the Mount Barker Wine Show, now known as the Wine Show of Western Australia, still held in Mount Barker every year.
Tony holds many awards for his work in the wine industry and for developing the Great Southern wine industry. He was part of the group that officially recognised the Great Southern and the 5 sub regions of Mount Barker, Porongurup, Frankland, Albany and Denmark regionally for Wine Australia..
Tony as General Manager of Plantagenet Wines was the first to bring a technically trained winemaker to the region and brought new innovation to the winery as the industry involved.
“One of my favourite stories about Tony is when he brought the old stainless-steel tanks from the whaling station when it shut down in 1978. Hosing out all the oil and fat making it clean and ready for wine. Stainless steel was very innovative in the winery in those days and to come from another local industry that closed down shows the ingenuity and hard work of those pioneering days.” quotes Vice President Kim Tyrer
Other Mount Barker Wine Producers Association Life Members include Betty Quick formally of Forrest Hill and Ian Tyrer of Galafrey Wines.
