On the road to Frankland River with Mr Cherubino

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At the end of last year I spent three days judging in the Margaret River Wine Show in Western Australia (WA) and took advantage of being in that far-flung part of the world to visit the even further flung Great Southern. See the online World Atlas of Wine map of WA if you want to get your bearings. 

The three- to four-hour drive south from Perth to Margaret River, on a fast road as far as Bunbury and then closer to the coast via Busselton, was very different from the route east and south from Margaret River down to...