In the early 1990s, the German doctor and keen wine collector Willi Schumacher, and his wife Gudrun started searching for a place in the world where extraordinary wines could be produced. Willi, who also has a strong interest in geology, was looking for a place with the right kind of environment to give the wines the unique expression of terroir that he envisaged. Their search led them to the beautiful region of Pemberton in the south-west of Australia, not far from the well-known Margaret River region.