Gabrielle Kervella's life story is as rich and layered as the cheeses she crafts.
And it was the story of her own grandmother's - about a hundred years ago - regularly crossing Takaka hill on a Harley Davidson with her dress skirts flowing that made her want to tell her story.
And so she has written a memoir for her grandchildren.
Her journey includes growing up across four continents as the daughter of a British Army colonel and navigating the offshore oilfields alongside her French husband.
Eventually settling in Western Australia, she turned her dream of farm life while raising her children into a reality.
Despite it being a completely alien landscape to the French countryside where she mastered cheesemaking - she adapted what she knew to Australia.
Eventually she twice won Australia's top cheese award. Now in Golden Bay, she and her partner, Alan Cockman, continue to handcraft unique cheeses using milk from a local farm.
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