Hollywood actor Russell Crowe tours SA winery Henschke and visits the SA Art Gallery

Renowned art and wine lover Russell Crowe enjoyed the best of both during a brief visit to South Australia this week.

Renowned art and wine lover Russell Crowe enjoyed the best of both during a visit to South Australia this week.

The Hollywood superstar headed to the Henschke family’s Hill of Grace vineyard, in the Eden Valley, for a special tour with winemaker Stephen and wife Prue, and their daughter Justine.

The private visit coincided with the iconic SA wine label’s launch of their revered Hill of Grace Eden Valley Shiraz 2016, which was released globally today for $890 a bottle.

Sporting a bushy grey beard, the Oscar winner was joined by his rumoured new girlfriend, actor-turned-real estate agent Britney Theriot, for a group photo with the Henschke family.

Actor Russell Crowe is in Adelaide and visited the Henschke winery in the Barossa Valley. Here he’s pictured with the Henschke family, including winemaker Stephen and wife Prue, and their daughter Justine, and rumoured new girlfriend, Britney Theriot, front. Picture: Henschke/Instagram.

“We had some very special visitors to our Hill of Grace Vineyard today...” the Henschke Instagram account captioned the photo, above.

Last year, Crowe narrated the video to mark the release of Henschke’s 2015 Hill of Grace, after they connected through a family friend.

“We reached out to Russell Crowe through a family connection, another family also impacted by the recent bushfires, to see if he would be open to working with us,” Justine Henschke said last year.

“We would like to thank Russell for graciously providing his voice.”

Clarice Beckett (1887-1935)
Yesterday I walked amongst 130 of her paintings at the ⁦@agsa_adelaide⁩ exhibition:
“ The present moment “.

Left me breathless. Set me on fire, and, I have an unreasonable jealousy towards anyone else who
attends.
It must be love.

⁦ pic.twitter.com/WT850Ukdvi

— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) May 4, 2021

Later, Crowe headed to the SA Art Gallery for the Clarice Beckett exhibition, The Present Moment, which he described as “simply spectacular”.

“Left me breathless. Set me on fire, and, I have an unreasonable jealousy towards anyone else who attends. It must be love,” he wrote on Twitter.

“If you can at all get yourself there, you really should.”

A long-time art collector and admirer of the late Australian artist, Crowe lent 12 works to the gallery for the exhibition.

AGSA Assistant Director Dr Lisa Slade said the gallery had “worked closely” with Crowe for the exhibition, which has been extended until May 23.

“AGSA was thrilled to work closely with the largest private lender to the exhibition Russell Crowe who described the exhibition as absolutely spectacular,” she said.

“Russell Crowe travelled to Adelaide especially to see the exhibition and we were thrilled to have him here.”

Due to swelling numbers flocking to ⁦@agsa_adelaide⁩ for
Clarice Beckett: The present moment...
gallery will open earlier every day at 9am & exhibition extended a week.
Seems ⁦@BenQuilty⁩ and I may have to resort to pistols at dawn. Clarice at 144 has many suitors. pic.twitter.com/rtlFpXyRmC

— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) May 5, 2021

Crowe was also spotted with a TV crew outside the Seppeltsfield winery in the Barossa Valley.