Food & Wine Nepal – July 2019

(28) Hospitality, Food & Wine, Monthly

Enoteca@Fnw

Cabernet is king in Coonawarra

Coonawarra’s agricultural history

began in the mid- 1800s when settlers

recognised the potential of the flat,

fertile plains for sheep farming and fruit

growing.

Enterprising Scottish settler John

Riddoch planted Coonawarra’s first

grapevines in 1891, thirty years after

establishing a lucrative sheep farm at

Penola. Thanks to the work of pioneering

work of people like David Wynn and

Bill Redman today Coonawarra is,

perhaps alongside Margaret River,

Australia’s most famous cool-climate

region for Cabernet Sauvignon.

The grape varietal has found a home

Discovering Aussie Wines

Coonawarra

Part 3