About Us

The Wine Creche is a premium contract winery and start-up wine brand incubator based in Melbourne which also provides mobile and remote services for wineries and vineyards across the state. We offer a variety of services to the Victorian wine industry, including contract winemaking, vineyard management, consultancy, wine filtration services, product development, certification management, and product evaluation and analysis. Our contract and custom crush winemaking operation is home to some of Victoria's most exciting small wine brands and emerging winemakers.

Our Team

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Mark Matthews: Owner, Head Winemaker and Viticulturist

Jack Johnson: Winemaker and Viticulturist

Mark Matthews has been making wine since 1997 and has worked over 30 vintages across Australia, France, New Zealand and the United States and since founding The Wine Creche in the mid-2000’s has made over 500 commercial wines across almost all wine categories.

During that time Mark has lectured to cohorts from NMIT, Melbourne Polytechnic a

During that time Mark has lectured to cohorts from NMIT, Melbourne Polytechnic and Latrobe University. In the viticulture field, he has a strong passion for organics and integration of biodiversity in grape growing and has worked with native grasses, fire stick farming practices and robotics across a range of landscapes to enhance viticultural and biodiversity outcomes.

He has extensive consulting experiences with clients across boutique, corporate, union and government sectors. Research interests and partnerships in winemaking have included CO2 and aroma capture (Dr Alastair Reed), Accentuated Cut Edge (Dr Richard Smart), Vessel development and permeability (Tony Flecknoe-Brown).

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Winemaker and Viticulturist, Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson: Winemaker and Viticulturist

Jack has worked for The Wine Crèche since 2023 as a vineyard manager, winemaker and filtration specialist.

He is also a co-founder and winemaker of Dack Wines, Victorian Wine Show Scholarship recipient (2024) and is currently conducting research on the effects on wine quality of concentration by Reverse Osmosis.

The Wine Creche acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as the traditional custodians of the country where we work and their continuing connection to land, waterways and community. We pay our respects to their Elders and all Kulin nations people past, present and future.