Bec Hardy Wines | Pertaringa
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Bec Hardy is a 6th generation member of the Hardy family with degrees in Viticultural Science and Business. After working in the UK and Australian wine markets, she has gained extensive national and international experience in wine production, marketing and exporting. In 2010, Bec returned to the family business from Sydney to manage Wines by Geoff Hardy’s portfolio of wine brands across the company’s domestic and international markets. After establishing Bec Hardy Wines in 2015 and acquiring the Pertaringa wine brand from her father’s business in 2020, she is now making her own way in the Australian wine world as the Hardy’s family’s first female vineyard owner and producer.
Bec Swincer returned to Australia in 2020 after living and working as a winemaker in Napa Valley, California for two years. Before that she was a winemaker at Petaluma in the Adelaide Hills, making some of the country’s most renowned wines. Bec has more than two decades of winemaking experience across many of Australia’s finest winemaking regions, having worked in for leading wineries in Clare Valley, Barossa Valley and the Adelaide Hills, as well as the US and France. Bec studied Oenology at Adelaide University and the University of California, Davis, and brings a wealth of winemaking experience to the Bec Hardy Wines team.
