Who are we?
We are an independent, UK based company working in partnership with some of Australia’s leading, independent and family owned wine businesses.
James Busby Travel was established in 2010 by Tim Wildman MW. The company ethos is to help foster positive attitudinal change towards Australian wine over the long-term
What do we do?
We provide UK and European wine professionals with bespoke educational tours around Australia’s premium wine regions.
A bit about Tim
In 1989, at the age of eighteen, Tim hitchhiked around Australia, ending up in the Hunter Valley just after vintage.
There he drank a bottle of Tyrrell's 1986 Hunter Valley VAT 47 Chardonnay out of plastic cups in the back of a camper van.
It was an epiphany moment, and his love affair with both wine and Australia began from that day on.
Tim passed the Master of Wine exam in 2008, writing his Dissertation on attitudes towards Australian wine in the UK market.
In 2009 he launched Winetec Ltd, (www.winetec.co.uk) an education and consultancy company.
In 2010 Tim established James Busby Travel Ltd, a travel company set up with the aim of taking the up-and-coming generation of wine trade professionals out to Australia's vineyards, thereby completing the circle that began over twenty years with a bottle of Hunter Valley Chardonnay in the back of a camper van.