Innholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2018/19 i Fleurieu Living Magazine

Key Personnel Petra de Mooy Thanks to our team, all of our collaborators, Fleurieu Leaders family and friends – 2018 was awesome! Here’s to a great 2019! Jason Porter Jason has worked as a graphic designer and creative director both locally and overseas for over thirty years. When not in the office, he can usually be found tweaking the crossover filters on his ridiculously over-the-top hi-fi system. Esther Thorn Esther Thorn is a storyteller. She has worked as a journalist for twenty years in print, radio and television. Esther believes small things, like commas and apostrophes, are important. This makes her an irritating dinner guest but a good editor. Holly Wyatt A self-described ‘city-escapee,’ Holly moved to the Fleurieu chasing wide-open spaces and the spoils of semi-rural life. Those spoils…

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‘I would look at this piece of land and think that I’d like to buy that property and eventually build a house there. And I guess I have been lucky enough to do it.’ Luke and Thip Royans own a little piece of the Fleurieu Peninsula called Lands End. It sits at the very tip of Cape Jervis and it is just what it proclaims to be. If you walk out of the home in most directions you will inevitably meet the sea … quite quickly in fact. Luke grew up at Cape Jervis and attended local schools until going to boarding school at Immanuel College in Adelaide from grade eight. Luke enjoyed rural seaside living and had the best of both worlds. ‘Lots of activities outside,’ he tells me.…

‘It’s a vision that expands Papershell beyond a mere almond orchard, imagining a food forest that will support, and be supported by, generations to come.’ It wasn’t so long ago that come late July and August, the hills of Willunga would suddenly turn pink. In seeming defiance of the grey winter, avenues of almond trees would burst into blossom signalling spring was coming. In more recent years, the almond orchards have largely given way to vineyards, but in a few pockets that life-affirming late-winter bloom still occurs. In early 2017, Jessica and Surahn Sidhu became custodians of one such plot. Since taking over the property, now known as Papershell Farm, they’ve started to explore a new, more harmonious way of farming. Their approach is closely attuned to the needs of…

‘At its most literal, Henry’s art sees him painting and surfing at the same time, while his more whimsical works include capturing surfing performance through stretching wetsuit remnants over canvas and interactive community installations.’ Ask Henry Jock Walker what he loves about making art and he immediately starts talking about the people he’s met and the stories he’s heard. He speaks effusively about the Buddhist priest-cum-Samurai he worked with on his recent trip to Japan, who carved a surfboard blank with his sword at Henry’s request. A week after we meet, an email he sends me from the Gold Coast includes a long paragraph on a man he just met named Phil Taylor who, it turns out, is a life member of the Tweed Valley Banana Festival, which happened to…

The new Eco-Sustainability Trade Skills Centre, based at the Currency Creek Campus of Goolwa’s Investigator College, had an unlikely genesis. ‘My wife and I needed a new dishwasher and were trying to find one with a four or five star energy rating,’ Principal Don Grimmett recalls. At the time, we were making annual trips to the Philippines working with communities who made their living scavenging from massive rubbish dumps.’ Don recalls that they re-used absolutely everything, causing him to question whether a five star dishwasher was really the best he could do for the environment. As it turns out, there was so much more! Around the time of Don’s dishwasher epiphany, the school had purchased a ten-hectare waterfront property overlooking the junction of Currency Creek and the Murray River. Don…

Summer on the Fleurieu is always a heady mix of emotions, with the shedding of layers, more daylight hours and the imminent arrival of vintage craziness. It’s also a time for discovery, with new releases landing on the tasting bench. This edition features a mixed bag of flavours from Rose to vermouth. The Stoke 2018 Sangiovese Rosé Nick and Rebecca Dugmore are a young couple with a wealth of experience in the industry from Bordeaux to South Australia, and from wine retail to wine making. They have travelled far and worked widely, but their passion for wine finds a beautiful expression on Kangaroo Island with a purpose-made Rose that sings of summer. This wine is the perfect blush of salmon pink in colour, with lifted florals, strawberry, papaya and mandarin…

Being Social: Field Good Festival Being Social: Faces and Food of the Fleurieu Launch On October 19 Rojina McDonald launched her first publication Faces and Food of the Fleurieu. The Fleurieu ArtHouse welcomed guests and hosted a smoking ceremony by Ngarrindjeri Elder Major Moogy Sumner and food by Adelaide Masterchef contestant Jessie Spiby. Being Social: Handpicked Festival Festival goers flocked to Lake Breeze Winery on Saturday, November 10 to enjoy live music amongst the vines and gum trees. The perfect weather inspired florals prints, fedoras and picnic rugs and the sunset created an ambient evening of music and wine. Being Social: Ideas on the Wharf The Wharf Barrel Shed hosted the Ideas on the Fleurieu on August 26. With a merry combination of wine, cheese, live music and a talented…

Salopian Inn In the heart of the Fleurieu sits the Salopian Inn. A trip to the well-known and equally well-loved McLaren Vale restaurant is always an experience of indulgence and first-class hospitality. The Salopian Inn is also renowned for its two-hundred-plus varieties of gin and its celebrated selection of wine, both of which are carefully curated by Innkeeper Alex Marchetti. Head Chef Karena Armstrong is passionate about seasonal, local produce. Indeed many of the ingredients are grown in her own kitchen garden. Word of mouth has built Salopian Inn’s reputation for amazing quality and service, attracting both locals and visitors from far and wide. Karena also believes in taking care of her staff and ensures they too get their fair share of fresh produce and love. ‘Hospitality isn’t known for…

Jenny Vonic-Joyce is sure about one thing when it comes to her Middleton home. ‘I don’t like colour,’ she tells me. When she shared her Instagram account with me so I could have a look before my first visit, it was precisely this aesthetic choice that appealed to me. When I pull up outside the property, the front belies the amazing extension and outdoor entertaining sanctuary at the back. ‘I always wanted that differentiation between the old and the new.’ says Jen. In 2004 Jen and her husband Greg Hatcher bought the property after Greg’s children from his first marriage moved to Victor Harbor. Jen and Greg decided to buy a weekender somewhere close by and found the Middleton property. ‘It was perfectly functional and practical and mainly came down…

Being a close neighbour to d’Arenberg has meant I’ve had a front-row seat to the transformation happening during the ambitious build of the new d’Arenberg Cube. Seeing the progression from an idea in owner and winemaker Chester Osborn’s magnificent brain, to a 3D model he built many years ago, to watching the frame go up, the twisted glass Rubik’s Cube form come to life, and now, seeing the curious crowds flow in. The helicopter traffic over my house and vineyard has certainly picked up over the last eleven months, much to my small son’s delight! And it hasn’t taken long for the dining experience at the Cube to become the talk of the town and country. d’Arenberg is already famous for d’Arry’s Verandah Restaurant, which has been run by the…

There has never been a better time to wine, dine, shop or stay on the Fleurieu. Over the past fifteen years the region has transformed from a handful of restaurants and just a smattering of cafes, to a fully-fledged foodie destination, with a smorgasbord of eateries, coffee, craft beer and distilleries to accompany its already world-renowned wineries. In the past year alone, FLM has counted close to thirty new businesses (including accommodation and retail) opening on the Fleurieu, with plenty more to come. Onkaparinga Council’s latest visitor figures show spending – from tourists and locals alike – has almost doubled in the past four years, and increased by thirty per cent from 2015 to 2017 (from $160 million to $210 million). And the outlook is even brighter with SA Government…

‘I was just shaking with excitement, just thinking: this is what I’m meant to be doing.’ The journey from farm to jar for fermented goods business Gut Feeling is a short one. The raw produce travels mere metres from plots on Starlight Springs organic farm in Myponga to Gut Feeling’s onsite kitchen. In contrast, the idea that would become Gut Feeling germinated much further afield, while founder Sam Whitehead was on the shores of a volcanic lake in the Guatemalan highlands. The original seed for Gut Feeling was perhaps planted even earlier, when a young Sam was exposed to his mum’s ‘food as medicine’ approach to health. ‘She instilled in us, from a young age, to always gravitate towards a more natural way of prevention and cure of illness,’ Sam…

When Ngarrindjeri artist Amanda Westley was sixteen, she drew her family tree for a history class, the branches sprawling over two big sheets of poster paper. On one piece sat her great-great-grandfather William McHughes, the respected Ngarrindjeri stonemason from Raukkan, on the shore of Lake Alexandrina. She understood the importance of these connections, but many had been lost to her, remaining flat on the page. Years later, in a very twenty-first century way, William McHughes would leap off that page, carried forward through the intervening years by Facebook. In April 2018 Amanda posted a photo of William on her social media accounts, identifying her family connection to him. Among the comments on the post was one from fellow artist Cedric Varcoe, a Ngarrindjeri and Narungga man from Raukkan and Point…

01. Dave Bennett, Director and Senior Architect with Bennett Design Where do you go? To eat? To coffee? To drink? I ride my bike from my home at McLaren Vale to work, and so local cafes are good. Check out Kicco, Mullygrub, Oxenberry or Blessed Cheese. Where do you shop? I’m not a huge shopper, but when I do I generally start in the Vale and then reluctantly travel outwards. What was the best thing about 2018? Our company finished a large Catholic School in Zuccoli, Darwin, which at $25m shows what regional companies can deliver when given the chance. What is your favourite place to go with friends on a weekend evening? Salopian Inn is a fave. The food quality and wine is hard to beat. 02. Elle Brown,…

From the FLM team Issue 27 and moving towards 2019 at speed! Here’s hoping 2019 is as surprising, rewarding and enlightening as 2018! If you don’t read anything else in this issue (though we urge to to absorb it all), be sure to take in ‘Home’ by Annabel Bowles — especially if you are a Fleurieu local. At just twenty-one this young woman has travelled the world and come back loving where she lives even more. In her story ‘Home’ she reflects on all of her experiences with wisdom well beyond her years. Annabel started out with us as an intern, but has grown in leaps and bounds and has recently been appointed editor of the UniSA student magazine, Verse. Last year our advertising manager Holly Wyatt completed issue one…

The Mount Compass hills have always been my home. I still live on the farm I was raised on, and nothing much about it has changed. Our front yard has a fig tree, a cherry plum tree and a tyre swing under an enormous oak. Sheep are dotted on distant green pastures like dandelions in a field, and birds sing at all times of the day. I probably didn’t realise how special this quiet little corner of the world was to me, until last year, at nineteen years old, I decided to stuff my belongings into a backpack to head overseas. Armed with more luggage than common sense, I said ‘catchya’ to the only home I’d ever known. I wasn’t sure whether I would be away for four, six or…

Hither & Yon – Rosé 2018 An array of varieties that reflect the diversity of McLaren Vale – Carignan, Muscat Rouge, Nero d’Avola, Grenache and Touriga – blended to make an exciting Rose. Hot pink in colour, bold yet elegant, and so very tempting. Featuring watercolour label artwork by Amanda Brown in New York, and musk, pink flower and raspberry aromas, the 2018 Hither & Yon Rose is a delight for all the senses. Best served chilled on a summer’s day. hitherandyon.com.au Down the Rabbit Hole – Friends & Lovers Sangiovese Rosé 2017 Bursting with summer berries and apricot and ending with a long, dry finish, this fresh, dry Rose, has enough vibrancy to beautifully represent McLaren Vale. The wet winter and spring of 2017, led to a late harvest,…

‘All of Alex’s development in photography has come about organically …’ When Alex Beckett’s parents decided to shift their family of four children from Perth to Victor Harbor eight years ago, the move proved fortuitous for fourteen-year-old Alex. ‘We had been coming (to the Southern Fleurieu) for visits on holidays and my parents just really fell in love with the region,’ she says. At Goolwa’s Investigator College Alex worked hard at being a good academic student, but also studied art and design. She began to experiment with photography on her iPhone and created an Instagram account to share some of these images with friends. ‘I guess technology had just become so accessible,’ says Alex. It was easy to have immediate feedback and she had a great eye for good light…

The question I’m naively throwing around the Fleurieu is what makes the wine dynasties (that abound in the region) not just survive for generations, but thrive. Colin Kay – great-grandson of Kay Brothers (est. 1890) co-founder Herbert – cites a ‘singe-minded dogged determination’, as one trait shared by Fleurieu’s dynasties, but it’s only part of the picture. Later in our conversation at the historic Amery property, discussing Colin’s zig-zagging path to eventually join the family business, there’s another clue. ‘After I completed my oenology diploma I slipped overseas and did some crazy things,’ says Colin, 78, now retired, but sprightly and bursting with passion for the winery. ‘I rode a motorcycle all over North America, worked in winemaking in Canada, worked on fishing boats in Alaska, travelled through Europe and…

2028 by Ken Saunders Published by Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781760631062 $29.99 A witty and thought-provoking work of fiction by a new writer, projecting Australia ten years into the future. Parking meters have become gaming machines, robotic drones swarm, and Australia Post has long jettisoned letter delivery along with any final, remnant vestiges of social conscience. Automation has claimed functions as diverse as drivers, general practitioners, focus groups and radio shock jocks while the Chinese Communist Party has incorporated, realising that real power lies with the multinational corporations. Set around a snap election, the plot circulates through the experiences of the expected key players – the Liberal government, Labor opposition, ASIO and of course the Chinese (the Greens having been placed into receivership by a conservative masterstroke) – as well…

A transfer from regional Queensland to a Brisbane newsroom in 2012 brought Jess many new opportunities, including a new city, new job and new friends. She never expected it would also lead to a new relationship … and eventually a husband. Jess and Joel met as journalists at Channel Nine and for many months enjoyed a relationship carried out in secret. Over time the romance was exposed; they’d moved in together and by Christmas 2016 were holidaying on annual trips back to Joel’s hometown of Adelaide. A Boxing Day drive to a Kuitpo winery took Jess by surprise. It was one of the places they visited during Jess’s first visit to Adelaide. Busy taking a photo, Jess hadn’t noticed Joel get down on one knee and produce an engagement ring.…