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The latest innovative product to come out of Polo Citrus Australia is its new long term dust suppressant product for roads and unsealed surfaces, ROAD CON! This product is not just for the big multinational giants in the mining game, it’s for the everyday person with a dust problem on a road or unsealed surface.
Read more >Are your wine additives the real thing?
Are you taking advantage of the inexpensive wine additives such as DAP or tartaric acid available this vintage? Not sure whether what you’re getting is the real deal? AWRI Commercial Services can give you confidence by testing wine additives for compliance with either the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) or the product’s Certificate of Analysis.
Read more >40 years of wine science education at CSU
Charles Sturt University (CSU) is celebrating 40 years of educating professionals for the wine industry with an event on Friday 27 November and Saturday 28 November. Since 1975 more than 1,000 students in the fields of viticulture, wine science and wine business have studied at CSU and its predecessor institutions, with these graduates now working in Australian and International wine industries.
Read more >Wastewater treatment – dealing with vintage
Treatment of winery wastewater can be difficult over vintage due to seasonal flow and contaminant increases. This, coupled with perceived cost of treatment, can make choosing a system somewhat daunting. While there are several options for wastewater treatment, it is very site specific, and adjusting to vintage periods is often poorly understood.
Read more >Get the right support for 2016 vintage trials
Vintage is fast approaching. Are you a wine producer looking to get real performance data on that new equipment you’ve had your eye on? Are you interested in one of the numerous new winemaking additives on the market, but unsure how to properly assess it? Are you a supplier looking to prove how effective your product is?
Read more >ABEVE launches the PROTEC XTri Optical Sorter into the Australian market
The Protec XTri sorter is designed to separate out from the winemaking berries anything that might alter the quality of the end product. Xtri has installed a multi camera system, utilising techniques up until now seen only in specialised research laboratories. In Europe and America the Protec XTris is the leading Optical Sorter sought after by premium wineries.
Read more >ECO TRELLIS ® toast success at the Wine Industry Supplier Awards
ECO TRELLIS ® has won two prestigious categories at the 9th annual Wine Industry Suppliers Australia Awards (WISA) held on Thursday 22 October in Adelaide. These awards highlight wine industry suppliers who clearly demonstrate that they can add value to their clients businesses. The awards won are the Banrock Station Wines Environment & Sustainability Award and the Tarac Technologies Innovation Award.
Read more >Show us your poster!
Poster abstract submissions for next year’s Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference are now open! Submit your poster abstract for a chance to win a prize or be selected to present your research in a ‘Fresh Science’ session at the 16th AWITC in Adelaide in July 2016. Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Visit the AWITC website to find out more and submit your abstract online.
Read more >Portavin Launches Expansive New Website
Portavin celebrates continued growth and greater products and service offerings with the launch of an impressive new website at www.portavin.com.au. The company, which has become Australia’s leading wine bottling and packaging specialists, developed the new site as an informative resource for wine producers to easily access information on all aspects of bottling, packaging and distributing wine both domestically and internationally.
Read more >Contract Winemaking – Watershed Premium Wines
Watershed Premium Wines is pleased to announce that is now offering contract winemaking services in Margaret River. To make enquiries for the 2016 vintage please contact Watershed’s Head Winemaker, Severine Logan on (08) 9758 8633 or by email: [email protected]
Read more >Australia’s biggest name in vine establishment
Always the innovator, GroGuard have an improved “back clip“ for use on windy sites. The back clip secures the GroGuard VineGuard to the drip wire, ensuring the vineguard stays put. Formerly made from wire, the new improved clip is made from UV stabilised polycarbonate. With helpful input from Rick Milland of Fowles Wines, the new clip is larger, sturdier and easier to use.
Read more >The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel.
Wine production sounds more glamorous than it really is. The day to day functions, logistics, monitoring and maintenance are constant and intensive at times. Harvest, especially, is not for the faint of heart. Therefore a great system for handling the ‘business of wine’ is paramount to maintain sanity and keep the business functioning. You can then focus on the ‘wine business’: the wine making and sales passion that compels us vintage after vintage.
Read more >Innovative solutions for thiols optimisation
Volatile thiols are potent aromatic compounds responsible for aromas of citrus, grape fruits and passion fruits, particularly noticeable in Sauvignon blanc, but also in Semillon, Riesling, Colombard … and rosé wines from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. The principal molecules of thiols are: 4-mercapto-4-methylpentan-2-one (4MMP): box tree, blackcurrant; 3-mercaptohexan-1-ol (3MH): grape fruit, passion fruit; 3-mercaptohexyl acetate (3MHA): grape fruit, passion fruit, sweat; In the grape, thiols are present as non-odorant precursors.
Read more >Kauri Early Order Barrel Discounts for Vintage 2016
Kauri is offering fantastic early order savings on Saury’s range of oak barrels. For best prices and discount delivery rates from the cooperages of Saury, Saury Bourgogne, Tonnellerie LEROI and Saury USA, please order by: Fri 02 Oct 2015 Hunter Valley; Fri 30 Oct 2015 Rest of Australia; Fri 13 Nov 2015 New Zealand. A FREE silicone bung will be given away with every barrel ordered.
Read more >Immediately reduce electricity bills with Beacon Solar
As Commercial Solar specialists, Beacon Solar is committed to providing our clients a seamless experience when switching their business to solar. Beacon Solar have been involved in the Commercial Solar power market for over 7 years and have assisted many businesses reduce their electricity consumption with reductions of up to 42% through incorporating Solar Power systems into their facilities. We have an experienced team that can tailor system design and configuration to suit individual site characteristics.
Read more >Tonnellerie CADUS is replanting trees!
The tree gives us the barrel, and now the barrel is replanting the tree: for each barrel delivered, Tonnellerie CADUS has committed to planting a tree in France! This is a major innovation in the world of cooperage, a generous and altruistic contribution to nature and one which every customer may be proud of. In partnership with a Burgundy nursery, a French leader in re-forestation with a policy of compensatory planting, Tonnellerie CADUS will replant sessile and common oak in several regions in France.
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