Interview with James Halliday [transcript] Interviewer: Rob Linn

James Halliday was born in 1938. He studied Law at the University of Sydney and worked for the Clayton Utz law firm. He became a partner in 1966 and left in 1974 to work for a merchant bank but returned in 1976 as a managing partner. He bought land in the Hunter Valley at Hungerfords in 1970. It became Brokenwood and won gold medals for the first vintage wines. He began judging wines in 1977 and wrote his first book in 1979, "Wines and History of the Hunter Valley", then books on Clare and the Coonawarra, then the "Australian Wine Compendium". He knew Len Evans, Max Schubert, and Jack Mann. He sold Brokenwood in 1983 and moved to Coldstream Hills; retired from the law firm in 1988; Southcorp took him over in 1996

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