“ I like buildings with heritage. I find the history interesting and I like all the different layers of time.
“ Te two ways to burn money are to start a wine business and do up an old building,” Sue Bell says as she chats from the upstairs office of her cellar door, while a wine tasting is currently being held downstairs. And she’s referring to not one, but two old buildings.
Located in Coonawarra in South Australia’s Limestone Coast region, Sue’s winery and cellar door, aptly named Bellwether Wines (for her surname, Bell, and its meaning as something that leads trends), is housed in an old stone shearing shed built in the 1860s. Meanwhile, Sue’s home, a 15-minute drive away in Penola, which she
