Historic Coolangatta Estate on the NSW South Coast includes a resort, award-winning vineyard and a popular wedding venue.
Already a subscriber?One of Australia’s oldest continuous farming enterprises, the Coolangatta Estate near Berry on the NSW South Coast, has been put up for sale for just the second time in its 202-year history, and could be worth more than $24 million.
Berry and Wollstonecraft, who met on a trip from Lisbon to Cadiz, Spain, in 1812, travelled to the new colony of New South Wales in 1819, setting up a trading warehouse on George Street in Sydney. Three years later, they took up a land grant on the Shoalhaven River where, as the first NSW South Coast settlers, they become rich from timber and tobacco trading.Advertisement
The Gold Coast suburb of Coolangatta is named after one of Berry’s vessels, which was wrecked off nearby Point Danger in 1846.Edward Wollstonecraft, after whom the lower north shore Sydney suburb is named, died in 1832 while Alexander Berry died in 1873. In 1947, local farmer Colin Bishop purchased land at Coolangatta, which he used for dairy farming. When Colin died, his son Greg took over, re-establishing vineyards and turning the estate into a tourist attraction with the development of a 28-room resort, nine-hole golf course, wine cellar, restaurant and function rooms.Coolangatta Estate wines, which are made from locally grown grapes vinified at Tyrell’s in the Hunter Valley, have won more than 2200 awards.
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