Corrina Wright, Winemaker and Director at Oliver's Taranga

After growing up and working in her family vineyards in McLaren Vale, having a father in the industry, and working in various cellar doors in the area, it was a natural progression for Corrina to develop a passion for winemaking. Corrina enrolled in a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Oenology) in 1993. This coincided with Corrina convincing her Grandfather and Uncles to let her have some fruit from the Oliver’s Taranga vineyard and working with local Chapel Hill winemaker, Pam Dunsford to produce a small scale wine. Oliver’s Taranga was born!!

In 1997, Corrina was granted a Scholarship from Southcorp Wines and Adelaide University to study for a year at the University of California. She graduated from the prestigious Len Evans Tutorial in 2005, and continues to judge at numerous wine shows around Australia. Corrina serves on a number of industry boards and her commitment to the wine industry in Australia was rewarded with a position on the inaugural ‘Future Leaders - Succession for the Australian Wine Industry’ program in 2006.

Corrina is a presenter at the ‘Mythbusting - Australia’s regions, sites, innovations, quality, diversity and characters’ business session.