| Intro | South African born Irish writer |
| Is |
Writer |
| From |
South Africa |
| Type |
Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 6 October 1968 |
| Age: | 51 years |
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.
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 before moving to France to set up an organic vinyard 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. The family continues to produce a number of wines from their organically grown grapes.
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.