A good cellar door tells you a story of the people who made the wine, in the same way that a good wine tells you a story of the place it was made in. That’s my takeaway from almost a decade working as a wine consultant and travelling sommelier with no fixed restaurant address. Experience counts.
Cellar doors can be spectacles for the senses, such as the striking d’Arenberg Cube in the McLaren Vale. While some are architectural feats that enthral in the vein of Marqués de Riscal in Rioja – one of Frank Gehry avant-garde monuments – others are more traditional
