He orders a Voyager Estate chardonnay and confesses to having once owned the Smithbrook winery in Pemberton, Western Australia, in partnership with his best friend, the late David Clarke, one of the founders of Macquarie Group. They later sold Smithbrook to Brian Croser.
Ferrier, 79, is a former chairman of Australian Vintage, which owns McGuigan Wines, and a former chairman of the Blue Pyrenees winery near Avoca, north-west of Melbourne.
You’ve got this evolution now of people who are trading in debts, who realise that and make money. It’s a form of investment banking.
Ian Ferrier
I quickly establish where one of the most successful and enduring partnerships in the elite and somewhat insular insolvency world began when I ask Ferri…
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