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And in the past year, they’ve taken on one of the most treacherous activities any family can undertake – renovating the family home. Or in this case, the family winery.

‘It’s more of a rebirth,’ explains Corrina Wright, winemaker and sixthgeneration Oliver family member, of the renovation and extension of the Oliver’s Taranga cellar door. Anyone familiar with the old cellar door will recall the charming (and small) 1850s worker’s cottage and deck. Pre-Covid, it was charmingly squishy. Post-Covid, and the attendant density requirements, it was unworkable.

The plans for a new cellar door were, however, well in train prior to 2020. ‘We’d had the project planned for a while and were just putting our big girl pants on to get it happening,’ says Corrina. The design, created with Tylen Spilsbury of Spilsbury Designer Homes in Victor Harbor, envisaged making better use