For Sue Bell, there has never been a better time to be making wine in Coonawarra. And this has been made possible, in part, by climate change.
‘Back in the 1960s and ’70s, Coonawarra was a marginal place for red wine’, says Bell. ‘There were probably two shining vintages a decade, and some really forgettable ones.’
Bell says that when she started working in this region on South Australia’s Limestone Coast in the late 1990s, her vinous lodestar was the legendary 1982 John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon...
