Robert Walters is the owner and chief wine buyer at Bibendum Wine Co, one of Australia’s leading wine and spirit distributors, where he helped create the market for great grower Champagnes in Australia. He wrote the award winning Bursting Bubbles: A Secret History of Champagne, he’s the owner of Place of Changing Winds, an ambitious, high-density vineyard in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria, and he’s recently launched a small publishing project called Ex Vinum.