Duffy driving Holm-grown success

REBECCA Duffy is a wife, a mother to spirited six- and seven-year-old sons, Tasmania’s 2016 Rural Woman of the Year and the 2015 winner of the inaugural Australian Women in Wine Awards owner-operator of the year title. Bec, as she’s mostly known, has run Holm Oak Wines at Rowella, north of Launceston, with her viticultural agronomist husband Tim since 2006. She has emerged as one of the bright young stars of Tasmania’s growing wine industry and Holm Oak holds a red five-star rating in James Halliday’s 2017 Wine Companion.