Sebastian and Colleen Hardy make wine in both Adelaide and Upstate New York, a wildly ambitious project rooted in the love of their home towns and families. 

‍Written by Erin Van Der Meer for Gourmet Traveller Wine. June, 2020.

‍I’m 500km north of New York City sipping a tasting flight from the Adelaide Hills. It would be a surprise to find this in NYC – where you can find just about anything – so to come upon it in Rochester, NY, is all the more unexpected.

I owe the bright, slightly savoury barbera I’m drinking to Sebastian Hardy – of the South Australian wine dynasty – and wife Colleen, a born-and-raised Rochesterian. Under their label Living Roots, the couple makes wine in both Adelaide and Rochester. This intercontinental business – unique, unprecedented, and stunningly ambitious – is borne of love: of wine, their home towns and families, and each other.