Murray Tyrrell

Murray Davey Tyrrell (10 February 19212 October 2000) was an Australian winemaker.

Biography He served in the armed force during World War II, and later worked as a cattleman. In 1959 he took over the Tyrell family's winery.

He was prominent in the development of the wine industry in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, and for many years was regarded as the leading promoter and spokesperson for the wine industry there, popularizing Australian pinot noir and chardonnay. He was an advocate for traditional winemaking, against the industry's move towards more technological winemaking from around the 1970s.

In November 1988, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation suspended his export licence following the discovery that Tyrrell's Vineyards wine contained excessive levels of sorbitol, a banned non-toxic additive. It was restored a few weeks later after Tyrrell's Vineyards promised to follow the rules. There were concerns this would be damaging to the Australian export market in light of the effects of similar scandals following the Chernobyl disaster and in Austria.