Wine Dogs Australia - Hardcover

Craig McGill & Susan Elliott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1921336021 ISBN 13: 9781921336027

Publisher: Giant Dog P/L, 2007

Synopsis

YOU CAN'T MAKE GOOD WINE WITHOUT A DOG!
- Peter Lehmann

Peter Lehmann's words have never rang more true. Wine Dogs Australia reveals the real palate-power behind the skilled business of making wine.

Wine Dogs continues to search for those marvellous winery ambassadors from around Australia and this all new edition features over 150 wineries across Australia and over 200 stunning photos of their loyal canine friends.

Along the way, the mutts and purebreds are interspersed with short essays by Max Allen, Greg Duncan Powell, Peter Forrestal, Rick Burge, Vanya Cullen, Nick Stock, Sally Ashton, Zar Brooks, Judy Sarris, Cecilia Schubert and Craig McGill.

Find out which dog impersonates kangaroos, who has the Italian shoe fetish and discover the origin of the hair-of-the-dog shiraz.

Wine Dogs Australia is a photographic journal of stunning pictures and great stories created all for the love of dogs and wine.

About this title

About the Author:

Originally from Shepparton, Victoria, Craig is a self-taught designer and illustrator who started his own design business in Melbourne at 18 years of age. During that time he was appointed as a design consultant to The Reserve Bank of Australia.

His designs and illustrations have graced banknotes throughout the world, including the Australian bicentenary ten-dollar note. His work appears on the original Australian $100 note, Papua New Guinea Kina, Cook Island Dollars and English Pound traveller's cheques. Craig was also involved in the design and illustration of many countries security documents such as Passports, Bonds and Traveller's Cheques.

At the age of 23 he designed the entire series of the Cook Island banknotes and it is believed that he was the world's youngest designer to design a country's complete currency. In 1991, Craig moved to Sydney where his illustrations were regularly commissioned by agencies and designers both in Australia and around the world.

He is now widely known as Australia's only freelance currency designer. Craig has also designed and illustrated five stamps for Australia Post. Craig has been Creative Director of his own agency, McGill Design Group, for over twenty-three years.

Having grown up with a succession of beagles, Craig is now owned by three Siberian Huskies.

Susan Elliott is a multi-skilled artist with a background in fine art, illustration and printmaking. After completing two years of a psychology degree, Sue changed to a career in art. She graduated from the City Art Institute in 1986, majoring in drawing, printmaking and painting.

After two years living abroad, Sue returned to Australia and exhibited her graphic art and screenprints extensively around Sydney while also working in a number of small design studios. She has developed into an award-winning graphic designer with over 17 years of experience in the industry.

Susan joined McGill Design Group in 1999 as co-owner and creative director. She is also co-founder and principal of the Giant Dog publishing house, which is responsible for producing a number of best-selling books including the Wine Dogs and Footy Dogs titles.

Review:

The original Wine Dogs book was an utter joy, and this follow-up upholds the standard delightfully. What a great way to get a chuckle out of 300 pages celebrating trouble on four legs.

All of us who visit wineries can't help but notice the omnipresent dog, as much a part of the scenery as the winemaker and the cellar hand. Sniffing or lying around, covered in mud/dust and/or flies the dog, that is. Craig McGill does these canines proud with his brilliant photography; the front on portraits capture their personalities to perfection; you can almost see through their eyes to the dark deeds taking shape in their minds.

And dark deeds they are capable of, indeed, as their accompanying rap sheets show: these list their favourite toys, food and pastimes, obsessions, known accomplices and naughtiest deeds. Jack, the border collie from Mt Mary Vineyard, for example, is guilty of getting a Maltese terrier pregnant; and Max, the collie/kelpie pup from Seppelt at Great Western, is infamous for chasing young children and the elderly and barking at them until they cry.

And there are some nice human touches here too, with lovely doggie stories by wine industry identities, such as the remarkable tale of Hillary the cork taint Staffy. --Mike Jaensch, WineState Magazine, April 2008

Booze Hounds

The second book in Craig McGill and Susan Elliott's Wine Dogs series more dogs from Australian wineries (Giant Dog) is the ideal stocking stuffer for puppy lovers. Available at bookstores nationally and winedogs.com --QANTAS Magazine, December 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: Giant Dog P/L
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1921336021
• ISBN 13: 9781921336027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320