![]() So when I began, I planted these two blocks here – this is my first Chardonnay block and this is my first Cab Sav block. I just wanted to see if I could make really nice wine… and block the road. I’m a bit older, so I didn’t really want to gung ho and make gazillions. There was a not-respect-for-the-plant aspect, other than it’s an input into the system. It was like, there was an industrial aspect to it. And I didn’t really like what people were doing, even in the so-called organic ones. So all these things came together for me and I thought, “OK, I’ll do that.” So I started to study and then I came out here and I worked in a bunch of vineyards. I was going to have a miso factory back in the ’80s. I always have sauerkrauts and different things going on. Not just from the viticultural perspective, which interests me. Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out about that.”Īnd then I started to study it, and when I started to study it, I really got how interesting and profound it was. Margaret River is known for wine, so it must be good for grapes. Would you consider growing grapes?” And I thought, “Well that sounds interesting. ![]() You want to do this organically you’re going to have to really basically make your own factory to make the quantities of inputs you need to do it the way you described you want it. ![]() And he said, “You know, it’s going to cost you so much. You should talk to this soil guy.” So I hired a soil guy and, you know, fast forward he’s telling me how expensive it would be for me to do organic. And I said, “I’m going to grow avocados.” And friends of ours who grow avocados said, “You know, I’m not sure that you can do that here. I’ve always had gardens and grown things. I better block the road.” And I’m a plant person. It was a busy Sunday and I thought, “I’m not moving 12 time zones to look at cars. And we were standing there looking and you saw all these cars on Caves Road. We’d like to build a house up there someday. Well, there’s this beautiful hill that faces north. How did you go from buying the land to making wine? But it was just one of many things that you would drink. , it was three years of looking for a place that resonated with both of us. We looked for a place to call home in Australia for many years. Tell us how it all began for Cloudburst Wine. By chance, the plan to block the view of a road from the spot of their future dream home was the seed that gave life to Cloudburst Wine. In the 2000s, the family looked for a place to call home Down Under and they eventually bought some land in the Margaret Riverregion of Western Australia. Soon they had two children and along the way a tradition developed that saw them spending part of their year in Australia (“ my wife could avoid the snow and ice,” he says). Their encounter, he says, was love at first sight. Will Berliner has had a connection to Australia since the 1990s, when he met his Australian wife in the New England region of the United States. James Dale to go for a walk in the vines and talk about his little winery that could. American Will Berliner’s Cloudburst Wine might be new to the Western Australian wine scene, but this premium brand has already attracted attention at home and abroad.
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