Caro Feely (born Caroline Marian Wardle 6 October 1968) is a South African-born Irish writer,

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certified wine educator, winemaker and organic activist living in

Saussignac Saussignac (; oc, Saussinhac) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is in the heart of Bergerac wine country and produces sweet white wines. Its village centre has a Poste and Mairie. The villag ...

, France.

Early life and education

Caro grew up on a sugar farm in

Kwa-Zulu Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

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 The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is a university with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville. ...

then Honours at the

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and a Masters in Economics at

Rand Afrikaans University The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) was a prominent South African institution of higher education and research that served the greater Johannesburg area and surroundings from 1967 to 2004. It has since merged with the Technikon Witwatersrand ...

Career

She met her husband Sean Feely, a journalist at the time, in Johannesburg. They lived and worked in Dublin for eight years before moving to France to set up an organic vineyard in 2005. Her first book ''Grape Expectations'' is about moving from Dublin city to France to go wine farming and converting to organic. The second book ''Saving Our Skins'' is about settling, converting to biodynamics, transforming the farm to an organic vineyard. In 2015 Summersdale published a wine book by Feely, ''Wine: The Essential Guide to Tasting, History, Culture and More''. In 2017 Summersdale published Feely's third book in the series about life on the organic vineyard: 'Glass Half Full' The vineyard owned and run with husband Sean, Chateau Feely, won the Best of Wine Tourism gold trophy for

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in the Bordeaux region in 2013 under the original farm name 'Haut Garrigue', officially changed to the Family name SARL Chateau Feely on 20 June 2014 and for vineyard accommodation in 2017. Feely is the wine writer for Living magazine and has articles published on JancisRobinson Feely is a regular speaker on the subject of organic farming and wine. The Feelys continue to produce a number of organic, biodynamic and natural wines recognised for their quality and cited as a favourite by a famous character of the Dordogne Martin Walker's 'Bruno Chief of Police'. The Feely vineyard is also known for their vineyard share and harvest weekend covered on RTE (Irish National Broadcaster) Nationwide in November 2009.

Bibliography

*''Grape Expectations'' Publisher: Summersdale (4 Jun 2012) Language: English (also translated into Polish) *''Saving Our Skins'' Publisher: Summersdale (7 Jul 2014) Language: English *''Wine: The Essential Guide to Tasting, History, Culture and More''. Summersdale, 2015 . *''Glass Half Full'' (Publisher: Summersdale (13 April 2017) Language: English

References

External links

"Caro Feely"
''summersdale.com''.
Caro Feely podcast
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