SUSAN GOUGH HENLEY writer

Travel, wine and food writer Susan Gough Henly divides her time between a farmhouse in France and a treehouse on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Along the way she fell in love with South Australia’s verdant McLaren Vale. “Sometimes the French take themselves too seriously and often the Aussies don’t take themselves seriously enough,” says Gough Henly. “But in McLaren Vale the combination of passionate irreverence and a fierce focus on quality is perfectly balanced.”