People - Koonara Wines

Dru Reschke - Top Dog, coffee maker I helped dad set up and manage our family vineyards for years, I completed a Bachelor of Business & Property, and was awarded the Geoffrey Roberts Award for innovations in the wine industry in 2000. I also do a spot of wine writing, and is getting better at taking photos (almost all the photos on the website are taken by me - the others by Shane Reid). I rate myself the luckiest guy ever, as my obsession became my business. I'll get a real job soon. Probably.
Nicole Reschke - Chief Financial Officer My offsider, and possibly one of the most beautiful people in the world, inside and out. Was poached by me from the Hyatt Hotel chain, where she spent years internationally working her way up through the ranks. Her last job was the conference manager at the 6-star Park Hyatt in Melbourne, where her super-efficiency meant they had to replace her with two people. She is also in charge of stopping me buying more wine than I can afford. Or drink.
Peter Douglas - Winemaker What more can be said about the great man - Head Winemaker at Wynns in Coonawarra for 15 years, spent vintages in Bordeaux with 'Chateau Leoville Barton', Napa Valley with Constellation, both Sicily and Tunisia with 'Casa Vinicola Calatrasi' and 'Puglia' before returning back home to Coonawarra. A good family friend, and we are privileged to have him as our winemaker.
Viv Reschke Mum has been a local Councillor for years, and is on boards around the area too numerous to mention. She is an avid supporter of local tourism, having been on the Limestone Coast Tourism committee for even longer than council. You might often see her face helping out in the cellar door. And of course she's my mum - so we love her to bits.
Trevor Reschke (15th May 1945 - 21st June 2008) An avid clay target shooter, he was selected in the Australian team for the American Nationals in 1980, and missed out on the Tokyo Olympics for pistol shooting by 1 point (Trev went back later that day after the trials were over with a different gun and scored easily enough to get in. He was a renown breeder of cattle, with agricultural colleges coming to the property each year to look at his unique cattle breeding program). "Wine Hobbyist" is probably how he would have described himself. Dad planted the vines on the home Block in 1988, for no real reason than he "would like to play around with my own wine one day." In 1992 he started that playing around, getting 30 cases made at a friends winery each year, until 1997 when Stan Gawel - our good friend and now distributor in Melbourne - decided to make some wine from the original vineyard. They were put into half bottles, shipped to England, and promptly snapped up by Andrew Lloyd Webber. He was a great man, and will be sorely missed. More Photos HERE.
Buster - Official welcoming committee at the Cellar Door Our little Jack Russel/Fox terrier dog who eagerly greets visitors as they come into the cellar door. He features in the recent addition of 'Wine Dogs'. He is always happy to meet new visitors and reunite with familiar faces.