Award-winning Hunter winery First Creek boosts its bottling services

WITH a publican grandfather and a wine maker father, Shaun Silkman was likely destined for hospitality. To his credit, Mr Silkman finished most of an economics degree before arriving at the cellar door at award-winning Pokolbin winery First Creek, of which the Silkman family is major shareholder. “I went straight from school to uni, so I dropped out, got an insight into [First Creek] and loved it,” he said.