Caro Feely
Caro Feely (born Caroline Marian Wardle 6 October 1968) is a South African born Irish writer, Wine & Spirit Education Trust certified wine educator, winemaker and organic activist living in Saussignac, France.[1]
Early life and education
Caro grew up on a sugar farm in Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. After high school at St. Anne's Diocesan College boarding school in Hilton, South Africa she completed a BCom at the University of KwaZulu Natal then Honours at the University of South Africa and a Masters in Economics at Rand Afrikaans University.
Career
She met her husband Sean Feely, a journalist at the time, in Johannesburg. They lived and worked in Dublin for eight years[2] before moving to France to set up an organic vinyard in 2005.[3] Her first book Grape Expectations is about moving from Dublin city to France to go wine farming and converting to organic.[4][5][6] The second book Saving Our Skins is about settling, converting to biodynamics, transforming the farm to an organic vineyard.[7][8][9] The family continues to produce a number of wines from their organically grown grapes.[10]
Feely is a regular speaker on the subject of organic farming. The vineyard owned and run with husband Sean, Terroir Feely, won the Best of Wine Tourism gold trophy for sustainable tourism in the Bordeaux region in 2013.
In 2015 Feely published her third book, Wine: The Essential Guide to Tasting, History, Culture and More.
Bibliography
- Grape Expectations Publisher: Summersdale (4 Jun 2012) Language: English ISBN 1849532575 ISBN 978-1849532570 (also translated into Polish)
- Saving Our Skins Publisher: Summersdale (7 Jul 2014) Language: English ISBN 978-1849536097[11][12]
- Wine: The Essential Guide to Tasting, History, Culture and More. Summersdale, 2015 ISBN 978-1-78372-683-7.
References
- ↑ "The women who say white wine turns them into monsters...and it's NOT because they drink too much of it". Daily Mail
- ↑ "Le vin, sa nouvelle vie". SudOuest.fr.
- ↑ "The grape escape: Fed up with Britain? Meet the family who moved to Chateau Calamity and think again | Daily Mail Online". Mail Online.
- ↑ "Up a lazy river with me — and my wine glass". Davis Enterprise, By Susan Leonardi From page A9 | April 02, 2015
- ↑ "Glass of English wine and a good book, anyone?". English Wine Lovers, October 27, 2013 (bok review)
- ↑ "Month 10 of My Reading Challenge". Frost Magazine, by Frances Colville
- ↑ "Sunday Book Review | The Shortlist". New York Times, By ERIC ASIMOV DEC. 3, 2015
- ↑ "Saving our Skins: French Vineyard Dreams (and Reality)". The Wine Economist, July 1, 2014 By Mike Veseth, book review
- ↑ "Book review: Saving Our Skins, by Caro Feely". Clitheroe Advertiser, 4 September 2014. Rebecca Hay
- ↑ "Travel Adventures in Aquitaine – The lesser known jewel of Southern France". Flux, February 20, 2014
- ↑ "Why monkeys throwing darts are as good as wine experts". Independent.ie
- ↑ "Book review: Saving Our Skins, by Caro Feely". Pendleton Today
External links
- "Caro Feely". summersdale.com.
- Caro Feel podcast