Wilimee Wines Macedon
Ben has extensive experience in winemaking, having worked in many regions across Australia, France and the United States. He is currently the winemaker at Galli Estate in Sunbury. His wine has won awards such as top ten in Australia at the James Halliday Challenge and Wine of Show at the Victorian Wine Show.
He attributes his passion for wine to growing up on a family farm and vineyard in Tumbarumba, at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains in NSW. Wine-making goes even further back in Ben's family with George Ranken planting some of the first vines in Australia at Bathurst, NSW, in 1841.
Ben honed his winemaking skills under the best possible tutelage of Steve Webber of De Bortoli in the Yarra Valley. Other memorable experiences include working in Burgundy at Domaine Michel Juillot in 2003, where every meal, even breakfast, was enjoyed in the cellar with a glass of wine. A year later in 2004 Ben worked in the Pic Saint Loup, near Montpellier, at Domaine Clavel and in Pomerol in 2006 at Chateau Lafleur. WILIMEE WINES
He attributes his passion for wine to growing up on a family farm and vineyard in Tumbarumba, at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains in NSW. Wine-making goes even further back in Ben's family with George Ranken planting some of the first vines in Australia at Bathurst, NSW, in 1841.
Ben honed his winemaking skills under the best possible tutelage of Steve Webber of De Bortoli in the Yarra Valley. Other memorable experiences include working in Burgundy at Domaine Michel Juillot in 2003, where every meal, even breakfast, was enjoyed in the cellar with a glass of wine. A year later in 2004 Ben worked in the Pic Saint Loup, near Montpellier, at Domaine Clavel and in Pomerol in 2006 at Chateau Lafleur. WILIMEE WINES