Peta Baverstock
Constellation Wines
Sparkling winemaker Peta Baverstock has been an integral member of the Hardy Wine Company Sparkling team for five years. Born, raised and educated in South Australia, Peta gained a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Oenology), graduating in 2000 and has spent the last seven years focusing on Sparkling winemaking.Throughout her studies, Peta worked as part of winemaking teams in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and France.
Peta’s foray into sparkling winemaking began in 2000 when, as part of the Vasse Felix winemaking team, she liquered her first sparkling wine, igniting the passion to produce world class sparkling wine styles.
As a cellar hand with the renowned Domaine Chandon (part of the LVMH conglomerate) Peta worked with the winemaking team of Neville Rowe for two years. She has also worked in Margaret River- Vasse Felix winery, Western Australia, as well as Yarra Valley- Domaine Chandon, La Crema- Sonoma County, Rippon- Central Otago and Bollinger- Champagne, France.
In 2005 Peta was the recipient of the Graham Thorpe Memorial Scholarship for the Best Sparkling Wine at the Royal Sydney Wine Show, enabling her to complete a vintage with Bollinger in Champagne, France. Peta was also one of five finalists and the only state Finalist from South Australia in the Professional section of the 2006 Vin de Champagne Award, organised by the Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne.
2008 will see her 11th vintage working under the direction of Ed Carr, Group Sparkling Winemaker, "Guru" of Hardy Wine Company. Peta’s aspirations are to further learn about the art form of Champagne making and other sparkling winemaking techniques from both New and Old World countries and continue to master Sparkling winemaking with Australian cool climate fruit.
She also has a great interest in European cultures, having recently travelled to the Piemonte wine region in the north of Italy and enjoys exploring new places and trying new cuisines. At any opportunity she enjoys conversing about the finer points of fizz making and the intrigue of wine in general.
