Tim Fearon
Tim Fearon came to wine the long way around – through ecology, earth sciences and years working in the conservation of native habitats. His prior life was spent reading landscapes, understanding soils, and tracking the relationships between land and living things. When wine eventually grabbed him, it grabbed him through exactly those lenses. The revelation, as he describes it, was realising that the physical world – soil type, slope, aspect, rainfall, solar radiation – could be captured and expressed in a glass. That idea has never left him, and it sits at the centre of everything Fearon makes. Launched from the 2023 vintage and based in Western Australia’s Ferguson Valley, the label focuses on alternative varieties that Fearon believes are perfectly suited to the Geographe region: fiano, grenache, tempranillo and mourvèdre among them, made with minimal intervention and a scientist’s attention to detail. Geographe is still finding its voice as a wine region, and Fearon is among those writing the sentences.
