Aldersyde Estate

Aldersyde Estate is the mother and daughter venture of Di and Lara Bray, formerly known as Piesse Brook. Lara Bray has joined the business as winemaker after an impressive career as a Flying Winemaker with top producers around the world as well as at Mount Mary, Brokenwood,Vasse Felix and Cape Mentelle in Australia. She was also dux of the Len Evans Tutorial in 2008, named as one of the 50 stars of that year in Wine Business Magazine, and has since judged at the Margaret River, Swan Valley, Perth and Perth Hills shows, and the Qantas Wine Show of WA, Geographe and at the Air New Zealand Awards. All this came after she had obtained her law degree. -JAMES HALLIDAY