Raised on a mixed farm in New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay, Nicki has built a 35-year career at the intersection of wine, sustainability, leadership, and communication.
As Viticultural Development Manager for Barossa Australia, she has helped progress the practices of more than 500 grape growers through science-led viticulture, environmental innovation, and nationally recognised leadership programs.
Nicki has driven award-winning initiatives in climate resilience, soil health, and sustainable wine growing, while mentoring the next generation of Barossa vignerons with the ‘Next Crop’ program and viticulture apprenticeships for Year 10s at Nuri High and Faith College.
With a career spanning winemaking, journalism, education, and grower engagement, she is inspiring change and building capability in Australia’s most iconic wine region.
A ‘mostly’ portrait and ‘brief’ interview series by professional photographer Pete Thornton exploring the idea that one image has the power to tell the whole story.
Each ‘sitter’ suggests the next person to be photographed in this series, and thus ensues an interesting and unknown trail of Barossa identities to come.
Stay tuned… Pete
The power of public voice. Making the invisible visible. With a long family association, a childhood spent at the pool, a passion for all things aquatic, and a good dose of community activism, the threatened closure of the historic Nuriootpa War Memorial Swimming pool back in 2020, saw Rebecca Reynolds dive head first into the Nuri Pool Working group campaign to save the pool.
Roland Weight will be well known to many in the Barossa and indeed to many from further afield. He is the instigator to a lot of visual artists in the Barossa. He started the Byron Bay School of Art and trained as a sculptural artist.
A woman of so many talents and so many passions. The Barossa Art scene is now benefiting from one of Kirsty’s current passions, being the new ‘Wonderground’ Art gallery and Cellar door.
