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WINE has played an influential role in the journeys of both Leon Hill and his partner in life and business, Tanya Blair. Born in Western Sydney, Tanya become involved in her family’s hotel business early on in her adult life. Working her way up the ladder she became an attendant at a little bottle shop in one of the family pubs – eventually running it. The bottle shop had a big focus on boutique family-owned wines, and Tanya’s thirst for wine knowledge was fed by reading every wine book and magazine she could get her hands on! It was later, while she was Food and Beverage manager at one of her parent’s hotels, that she met Adelaide-born Leon. A graduate of the Roseworthy Campus of the University of Adelaide, Leon was running a successful wine distribution business at the time, pioneering the organic and preservative free wine category across east and west coast Australia. From a friendship and shared love of wine, blossomed a relationship and growing mutual interest in producing their own premium range of organic and preservative free wines. Organic