Wollongong's Throsby wine bar overhauls menu to source wine from fire-affected vineyards

Kate McIlwain
Updated January 16 2020 - 8:58pm, first published 5:00pm
Cash injection: Throsby wine bar owners Erick Zavallos and Maddie Sullivan changed their menu last weekend to sell only wines from fire-affected businesses. Picture: Anna Warr.
Cash injection: Throsby wine bar owners Erick Zavallos and Maddie Sullivan changed their menu last weekend to sell only wines from fire-affected businesses. Picture: Anna Warr.

As Throsby wine bar owner Maddie Sullivan and her family drove back to Wollongong after New Year, leaving their bushfire-ravaged holiday spot of 30 years, she realised it wasn't just fire wreaking devastation on the South Coast.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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