The People

In Nuriootpa’s Centennial Park, tucked away past the netball courts, crickets nets and the Scouts’ hall, sits the Barossa United Football Club’s (BUFC) newly completed synthetic pitch, just in time for the 2023 season to kick off in March.

Cutting a striking figure in the boardroom of her cellar door, it’s hard to imagine just a few hours earlier Prue Henschke was knee-deep in the vineyard, the place where she is happiest.

Look through a window into Sam Cowley’s imagination and you’ll discover a place of childlike wonder.

It’s a typical Thursday morning and Eileen Bartel’s weekly masterclass is well underway in her makeshift sewing room at Angaston. The chatter flies quicker than a sewing machine needle as the assembled women use their collective wisdom to tackle matters of life and stitching.

Beer purists step aside – an eclectic group of local brewers is tapping into a new beer world order and keeping ‘local alive’.

It’s midday on a Tuesday and Matt Nitschke is holding court in the lunchroom of The Barossa Council, enthusiastically dissecting the weekend’s local sports results with his colleagues.

WORDS BY ALICIA LÜDI SCHUTZ PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETE THORNTON   Pete Koch...

WORDS BY TODD KUCHEL PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN KRÜGER Beaming with pride and fulfilment, Sam Neumann sits beside me after the experience of a lifetime, expanding her knowledge and expectations of her chosen profession on the other side of...

The handsomely hewn face and blue eyes of Tony Kuchel look out across the cosy living room of “Bear Lodge” in Nuriootpa, oil paints gamboling in a contest of light and shade across the canvas.

Reverend Revheads It’s a sight to behold and not one usually associated with pastors, when motorcycling ministers Adrian Kitson, Julian Bayha and Detlev Vosgerau arrive at Marananga’s Gnadenfrei Lutheran Church. The serenity of the Seppeltsfield landscape...