MARGARET RIVER’S FRASER GALLOP ESTATE CHALLENGES THE REGION’S PRODUCERS TO DEFINE WHAT THEIR TERROIR IS ABOUT
The last Saturday of November 2008 saw a most unusual encounter between the so called Old and New Worlds in the company of Domaine de Chevalier’s Olivier Bernard (on the right of the picture) and Nigel Gallop of the Fraser Gallop Estate in Western Australia’s Margaret River. All things being relative, Australia’s soils, probably the oldest in the world, can look back on 500 million years of history, but this particular patch has been planted with vines only since the early 1960s. (more…)