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Sep 8, 2026
Brent MastersHOST
So if you're keen to dig a little deeper, hear a few more laughs and get to know the person behind the wine just a little bit better, pour yourself a glass and enjoy this bonus conversation.
Brent MastersHOST
You've chaired shows and attended the Len Evans tutorial.
Brent MastersHOST
What role does judging play in shaping your view on what matters in wine today?
Sebastian CrowtherGUEST
Yeah, judging, I think, was really good as I was sort of coming through wine.
Brent MastersHOST
broaden your perspective for sure.
Brent MastersHOST
And what about
Sebastian CrowtherGUEST
the Len Evans? Oh, Len Evans is an amazing thing.
Sebastian CrowtherGUEST
We're so lucky to have that.
Bruce TyrrellGUEST
So we were all members of that.
Bruce TyrrellGUEST
And my sister, her first real job was she ran downstairs the bottle shop department at Len Evans Wines.
Anna WebsterHOST
Your dad and Len Evans were quite close.
Bruce TyrrellGUEST
Yeah, they were this week and they weren't next week.
Bruce TyrrellGUEST
Pretty funny.
Peter SisseckGUEST
And...
Peter SisseckGUEST
So it was only quite late that my, not late because I was only 14 or something, where Peter Vending, who had been sort of a guy in the family people talked about, but because he was living in South Africa, he'd come back to Europe, started working at Luden with Martin Bamford at that time, and ended up running a company for some Australian guys, Len Evans among them, in Portets, which was then Grave region, it's still this Grave, Before there was this split, everything was grave, even Aubrayon was grave.
Peter SisseckGUEST
And so we went down to see him.
Peter SisseckGUEST
And I remember walking into Chateau Raoul was the place where they were living.
Mike De IuliisGUEST
Um, so the Hunter Wine Show has this really cool program that I, I don't think a lot of-- I, I know a few do, but there's not a lot around and, and there are a few more programs sort of specifically built around this idea.
Mike De IuliisGUEST
But they-- that Len Evans, um, introduced to the Hunter Wine Show, a trainee associate judge position.
Mike De IuliisGUEST
So each year there was a, an-- Well, they, they had your usual panel of, of three judges, or chair of judges, then your three judges.
Mike De IuliisGUEST
Um, the Hunter actually has three associate judges, and then they had a panel of three trainee associate judges that just kind of sat around the whole-- with the whole group of judges.
25 MINS LATER
Shante WaleHOST
It's that holistic, um, immersion in wine and, and for young, young judges or, you know, to be there to listen, to even just be a fly on the wall, but to taste it, to listen to what you guys have to say about it, to learn, um, and do it in this with like-minded people is just...
Shante WaleHOST
You, you can't get that experience anywhere else.
Shante WaleHOST
And it's, it's just, um, it gets its hook in, you know? And, and you-- You know, I think that, um, what I think is so interesting in that we talked about Len Evans' tutorial and, and the interest that people want to get into that incredible once in a lifetime opportunity for a scholarship.
Shante WaleHOST
And so, uh, you know, that I need to do some judging, that's how I get in the door.
MikeGUEST
Oh, I definitely will be coming back, but it'll be nice to go up there again.
BrendenHOST
I've got a spot in the Len Evans tutorial, which is... unbelievable and something that he's obviously worked very hard for and um just congrats from me personally to him that's really all i want to throw out there all right so yeah thank you so then you're exciting do
MikeGUEST
you want to start us with the first one on the left
BrendenHOST
yeah for sure so we're going to start off with right on the screen i don't really know what it looks like but this one here okay just so you know
Mike De IuliisGUEST
Um, so the Hunter Wine Show has this really cool program that I, I don't think a lot of-- I, I know a few do, but there's not a lot around and, and there are a few more programs sort of specifically built around this idea.
Mike De IuliisGUEST
But they-- that Len Evans, um, introduced to the Hunter Wine Show, a trainee associate judge position.
Mike De IuliisGUEST
So each year there was a, an-- Well, they, they had your usual panel of, of three judges, or chair of judges, then your three judges.
Mike De IuliisGUEST
Um, the Hunter actually has three associate judges, and then they had a panel of three trainee associate judges that just kind of sat around the whole, with the whole group of judges.
25 MINS LATER
Shante WaleHOST
And, and that's what, you know, when we talk about the fun side of wine shows, this is what we're talking about.
Shante WaleHOST
It's that holistic, um, immersion in wine and, and for young, young judges or, you know, to be there to listen, to even just be a fly on the wall, but to taste it, to listen to what you guys have to say about it, to learn, um, and do it in this with like-minded people is just-- you, you can't get that experience anywhere else.
Shante WaleHOST
And it's, it's just, um, it gets its hook in, you know? And, and you-- you know, I think that, um, what I think is so interesting in that we talked about Len Evans' tutorial and, and the interest that people want to get into that incredible once in a lifetime opportunity for a scholarship.
Shante WaleHOST
And so the, you know, that I need to do some judging, that's how I get in the door.
Austin CurryPANELIST
when we get to it.
Austin CurryPANELIST
But let's start with the 2026 Len Evans Tutorial scholars.
Austin CurryPANELIST
They have been announced.
Austin CurryPANELIST
Now for, for anybody that doesn't know, it is Australia's most prestigious wine education program.
Austin CurryPANELIST
... from across the country to spend an intensive week tasting and learning from some of the world's best wine educators and masters of wine.
Austin CurryPANELIST
Meg, over to you.
Austin CurryPANELIST
To anyone who hasn't heard of Len Evans Tutorial, what actually happens during the week? Is it considered a, a career-defining opportunity, or is this, like, the winemaker's-
Meg BrodtmannHOST
Yeah