Larry Cherubino

Larry Cherubino's wife Edwina is a fourth generation Western Australian. Edwina's ancestors, the Egerton-Warburton’s, migrated from England and settled Frankland River in the mid 1800’s. Not just settlement pioneers, they planted the first vines on the banks of the river in 1875.

The roots for Cherubino were laid in 2004 when Edwina and Larry bought land in the Frankland River sub region of the Great Southern, Australia’s largest wine region by sheer geography. A small parcel, originally part of a large, historic holding called Riversdale, their dream then was simply to plant their own vineyard.

A lot has happened since then.  An opportunity to buy the neighbouring property, with acres of prime river and vineyard country, enlarged their vision. Frankland River in some sense is the soul of Cherubino, where it all began. For Edwina, a fourth generation West Australian, it’s where her family the Egerton-Warburton’s migrated to from England, in the mid 1800’s. They planted the first vines on the banks of the river back in 1875.

Larry is a first generation Australian. Like many from the great Italian migration, winemaking has always been something he's known, pressing grapes on the farms or in the backyards of his own family in Siderno. There’s a tradition of families making wine for families. Cherubino is perhaps that on a much larger scale.

Western Australia’s wine-growing regions are spread over large distances and their local geography and climates vary significantly under the influence of two Oceans and the Great Australian Bight.