The Traditional Owners of this land are those who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Sovereignty was never ceded.
Crooked Drinks pays respect to Elders past, present, and emerging - and acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people as the traditional owners of the lands and waters that we operate on.
Crooked Drinks acknowledges the responsibility of committing to a truth-telling process that promotes an honest and respectful path forward for future generations to build upon.
It impossible to not acknowledge that wine is a European system of agriculture based on vine species native to much of Europe and Western Asia. Leading up to colonisation, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders had amassed tens of thousands of years of knowledge about the specific places that they were custodians of and their purpose was to care for the land - to help it flourish so that in turn it would support their own flourishing, and that of generations to come. To make proper and accurate acknowledgements for land now planted to the vine, we have listed the Traditional Owners of each Australian wine - with the caveat that the boundaries of these First Nations people are fluid and don't share the rigidity of Western culture boundary lines.
We encourage everyone, when enjoying an Australian wine, to educate themselves on the Traditional Owners of the land of which you are enjoying the fruits of their custodianship.