HIS OWN MAN
“DON’T go down that path son,” the senior WA Agriculture Department bureaucrat at the time told scientist Tony Devitt, “or else you will end up in an agricultural backwater.”
He was referring to a position as winemaking and viticultural adviser to the WA industry Devitt was about to apply for in 1972.
Fortunately for those in the industry, Devitt ignored the advice and got the job he so badly wanted - as oenology and viticulturist adviser for winemakers around the
