We used to think Margaret River, the jewel in Western Australia’s wine crown, was a sleepy little backwater but it’s currently looking more like an employment exchange.
Evans & Tate, owners of the Barramundi label and one of the companies that has most prominently outgrown Margaret River’s miniature scale, has just sacked the group winemaker Steve Warne. Much has been made in the local press recently about E & T’s massive debts. Frank Tate has accordingly been forced to step aside as CEO. Whoever replaces him will presumably try to make more of a match between the upmarket niche...