Barossa Unearthed

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.

Stuart is SA born and bred and, despite travelling widely as a child in an army family, he always found his way back home. After studying Pharmacology at Adelaide University in the 1980s, his direction changed when his parents became grape growers at Clare, igniting a passion for wine through a blend of hospitality and viticulture.

Newsagency, deli, paper round delivery, seafood seller, purveyor of old-school local quality fruit and vegetables, bread, pies, cards, cigarettes, gifts and at its utmost - a place where you are known!

Grant is probably best known for his passionate roles in wine and food that date back to Rockford and the Barossa stalwart restaurant, fermentAsian. But delve back to Grant's younger years, growing up in Sydney and you find a passion for music and Orchestra.

A hobby that turned into a passion that turned into a business and way of life, Barossa's Barry Gardner or ‘Baz’ has been making knives for enthusiasts, commercial and hospitality clients and lovers of outstanding craftsmanship for some 32 years. Fourteen of those have been as a tenant at Seppeltsfield's ‘Jam Factory’.

Barossa based glass artist Brenden Scott French works away in his busy, purposeful and colourful studio space at Seppeltsfield’s ‘Jam Factory’. It’s an intriguing open space showing finished works, experimental projects, raw materials and all the tools this artist needs to work away at his inspiring creations.

UK trained milliner Julie Fleming, cut her teeth in the fashion houses and quality focused millinery houses of London – creating beautiful head pieces for the world’s fashion conscious and race going fans of Royal Ascot, with many of her customers including the royal family members.

After many years of providing her Pilates services to the Barossa community in a small studio with limited equipment, Kate has bitten the bullet and expanded!

Ceramic artist and passionate sharer of her art form - Aleshia Webster is welcoming, vibrant and enthusiastic about creating with clay.

With a passion for and an unwavering commitment to the development and curation of the Barossa Museum at Tanunda, Don Ross' mark and influence on this institution now spans a staggering 57 years of its 61 years since establishment.