Mcleish Estate
Bob and Maryanne McLeish made a tree change to the Hunter Valley in 1990, starting McLeish Estate. Jessica McLeish started working part time in the business in 2008 when she was 18 years old and studying Human Resources at University. It was a post Uni trip to Europe and a vintage south of Boredeaux that saw her bitten by the wine bug. On her return she enrolled in a Masters of Wine Business.
In 2015 she stepped full time into the business and is now Operations Manager, responsible for Sales, Marketing, the Cellar Door, and overseeing vineyard management and the winemaking.
Jessica comments, “being part of the wine industry was an attractive option. It offers such diversity from working with winemakers, being part of vintage, to being on the road for sales and promotions”.
McLeish Estate was achieving success and notoriety at the time she came into the business. “My parents worked super hard, so I just didn’t want to stuff it up. I used to take wine reviews and criticisms so personally”, she laughs.
Jessica admits, “when I was in my 20’s, I really wanted to change the formulae that had made the business successful, it was a big learning curve.”
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Story by Cathy Gadd.
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