Australian Women in Wine Symposium 2026 Announced

Written By Campbell Mattinson

  • Australian Women in Wine Symposium to Explore Leadership and the Future of Work

  • The Australian Women in Wine Symposium 2026 is in Melbourne on 15 September.

  • The theme of this year’s Symposium is Rising Together – Shaping What Comes Next.

  • The symposium has been running since 2015 and has become Australia's leading national event dedicated to women in wine.

Women from across Australia's wine industry, along with colleagues and supporters, are being invited to attend the Australian Women in Wine Symposium 2026, to be held in Melbourne on 15 September.

Held under the theme "Rising Together – Shaping What Comes Next", the symposium will focus on leadership, workplace culture, mentoring, professional development and the changing nature of work in the Australian wine industry.

Built around the themes of Evolve, Adapt, Collaborate and Challenge, the event aims to bring together growers, winemakers, researchers, business owners, government representatives and other industry professionals to discuss practical ways of building a more inclusive and sustainable wine industry.

The program will include keynote presentations, panel discussions and workshops covering topics including leadership, flexible work, health and wellbeing, allyship, ESG and workforce development.

Established in 2015 by Jane Thomson OAM, founder of the Fabulous Ladies' Wine Society, the symposium has grown into Australia's leading national event dedicated to supporting women in wine. The 2026 speaker line-up will be announced shortly.

The symposium is open to people working across the Australian wine industry, from vineyards and wineries through to laboratories, cellar doors, offices and boardrooms.

Details:

Australian Women in Wine Symposium 2026
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Lakeside Pavilion
36 Lakeside Drive
Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria

Register for the Australian Women in Wine Symposium 2026.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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