Inside Vintage 2025

This exhibition celebrated the women behind the wine — the female winemakers of the Riverina who have quietly, powerfully shaped the identity of this region.

The Riverina is home to a diverse and deeply skilled winemaking community — men and women who collectively carry generations of knowledge, care, and technical expertise. Within this landscape, Vintage 2025 turned its lens toward the women: those whose names appear on lab reports, award sheets, and bottling lines — women whose work is vital to the story of this region.

Through photography, film, and fashion, Vintage 2025 brought audiences into their world — into the rhythm of vintage, the beauty of repetition, and the precision of craft. It was a story that honoured both grit and grace: the long hours, the technical mastery, and the quiet resilience that defines each season.

Along the walls of the exhibition space, photographs from the 2025 season — captured by Nehma Vitols — offered an intimate glimpse into their world: from sun-drenched vines to stainless steel crushers, from early-morning lab work to the final press. Each frame spoke to process, endurance, and the strength of community that runs through every barrel and bottle.

At the heart of the room, a long table held personal reflections and imagery of garments chosen by each winemaker — pieces that carried memory, emotion, and meaning. A well-worn shirt, a vintage jacket, a family relic — each one became a link between personal history and professional craft, forming the inspiration behind the collection itself.

Projected in the boardroom, a video work threaded their journeys together — their voices, their wineries, their deep knowledge and creative force. It offered a moment of stillness in a world of motion: an invitation to listen, to see, and to understand what it truly means to build something lasting.

This was an exhibition about women who make wine.

Their season — told in their words.