Sydney-based illustrator Adriana Picker has seen her works grace publishing, advertising and motion picture industries, walls of galleries, and bookshelves around the world.

Heathcote, Victoria-based winemaker Adam Foster is a chef-turned-sommelier (even spending time at lauded-regional restaurant The Lakehouse at Daylesford), who threw in the hospitality towel to ferment grapes. His labour of love has seen him plunge ferments at famed French winemakers’ cellars, and with local heroes in Australia, before he decided to set up his own winemaking venture, Syrahmi, a decade ago.

Picker’s illustrations have found their way into some seriously exotic places. Her talent was harnessed by Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin for cinema spectacle The Great Gatsby, and indeed as Martin received her Oscar for Costume Design, Picker’s illustrations were shown at the 2014 Academy Awards.

Foster hasn’t quite graced the Hollywood spotlight, but you can pick up bottles of his wine in West Hollywood bars and restaurants; in some cases, close enough is good enough.

The two worlds, though seemingly disparate, do oscillate closer than one thinks. Picker’s illustrations often touch the world of the organic, frequently documenting Australian natives, botanicals and flora, while Foster works in and around his farm surrounded by the same.

Picker has worked with chef Peter Gilmore on his widely-lauded second book, Organum, with many of her illustrations veering into a world Foster knows only too well.

“I first came across Adriana’s work at the opening of Sydney wine bar ‘Love, Tilly Devine”, Foster says, “she was drawing a mural on the wall that still resides there today”. Food and wine bringing humans together.

The two crisscrossed paths over subsequent years, before a lightbulb moment came to Foster. “I proposed the idea to Adriana to create a wine label based around our farm in Tooborac, Victoria”, states Foster. “The notion was for her to visit, sketch, and gain inspiration. I wanted her to capture the unique landscape and natural beauty of our place.”

Picker took on the task.

“I worked closely with Adam to make sure the artwork was a strong reflection of his place of his personality,” Picker says. “The colour palette of the label speaks of the imposing granite boulders that dominate the landscape, the windswept dry grass, and the unending blue sky”.

“We wanted the label to have a sense of discovery”, Picker continues, “for new little details to keep appearing if only you bother to look. Just as if you were taking a lazy stroll around Adam’s back paddock to turn over a rock and discover a scorpion, or a beautiful little crop of mushrooms”.

Picker’s connection to the wine community has given her unique insights, her experience and talent have taken care of the rest.

Foster’s Syrahmi range has only recently expanded to new releases under these Garden Of Earthly Delights wine labels. These wines showcase Foster’s interpretation of local Riesling and Pinot Noir, and use Picker’s illustrations as their motif.

It’s not every day that wine labels are given such thoughtful background, nor appear with such inspiring design.

The Garden Of Earthly Delights Riesling 2015, is a mesh of citrusy, nutty and honeyed characters, and though complex in texture and flavours, stays zesty and compelling to drink. It’s a wine for big glasses and drinking slowly with some charcuterie and pickled vegetables, or similar fare.

The red release, Garden of Earthly Delights Pinot Noir 2015, treads a more familiar path – here’s a light to medium bodied red of cherry-berry fruitiness, a touch of spice, finishing with a smudge of fine, chalky tannin. I’d be quickly searing some veal, venison or kangaroo meat here.

Both wines are widely available for recommended retail price of $37.