Cassandra is a Margaret River-based wine, travel, and food writer and television presenter/MC, regularly contributing both copy and photography to publications including Decanter, Halliday magazine, International Traveller, Delicious Magazine, Escape, Australian Traveller, The Urban List, T Magazine, Ray Jordan’s Wine Review and more. She’s a wine reviewer and writer for Decanter Magazine and Wine Pilot, and a wine show judge.

She’s a regular television presenter on Channel Nine’s Our State on a Plate and hosts in-person wine and food events throughout the state. Cassandra also delivers immersive wine experiences throughout Western Australia’s wine regions as the co-founder and director of Earn Your Vino and Travel Better DMC. She’s a food and restaurant reviewer for the WA Good Food Guide and regularly hosts and MCs wine, food and travel events for clients such as Tourism Western Australia, The State Buildings, Cullen Wines, Larry Cherubino and more.

Cassandra’s writing, photography and videography has been featured on tourism accounts including Australia, Western Australia, Australia’s South West, Luxury Lodges of Australia and Margaret River and Australia’s Golden Outback.

She is the director of Brillig Communications, a business which specialises in telling stories for brands in the tourism and wine industries via copywriting, photography and video.

In 2023 Cassandra was awarded a fellowship at the Wine Writers Symposium in Napa Valley. One of the greatest pleasures of wine and travel is that there is always an infinite amount more to learn, and she finds joy in discovering the stories that fall between the cracks.

When not doing all of the above, you can catch her behind the microphone singing.

For more than two decades, Fleur has been telling stories in a way that makes the audience lean in. Fleur delivers engaging editorial pieces to local, national and international magazines.

As a talented writer, she knows there’s much more to evocative storytelling than clever adjectives and punchy phrases. As a mentor, she also teaches fellow writers how to polish their writing until they’re blinded by the shine.

Originally from Northland in New Zealand, Glenn first visited Australia on a surfing holiday in 1989. It was during this trip that he began his wine career, working in the vineyard at Cassegrain Wines in Port Macquarie, New South Wales. A vintage at Domaine La Grave in Bordeaux the following year (1990) cemented Glenn’s passion for wine and he was encouraged to take up studies at a tertiary level. Over 9 years at Cassegrain, Glenn worked his way from the vineyards to the cellar before eventually earning the position of Winemaker. During this time, Glenn completed his Bachelor of Agricultural Science, Oenology at the University of Adelaide (Roseworthy) and gained valuable experience overseas including vintages in South Africa (1992, 1998) at Glen Carlou Vineyards, in New Zealand (1996) at Esk Valley in Hawkes Bay, and at Mac Rostie Wines in California, USA (1997).

When Glenn returned to Australia to settle in Margaret River, he worked in the vineyard at Ashbrook Estate before assisting in establishing Margaret River’s first contract winemaking facility at Harmans Ridge. Glenn eventually found his niche as a winemaker at Xanadu Wines, joining the team in 1999. Several months after the Rathbone family purchased the winery, Glenn took on the role of Senior Winemaker and has been at the helm since the 2006 vintage.

Glenn has an intuitive approach to winemaking, with a deep respect for the vineyard where he believes true quality begins. He recognises that it takes more than one person to make the wines and is proud to lead a great team who share his focus in both the vineyard and the winery.