Category: Announcements and Suppliers
Business owners: ask yourself how you did … so you can do better (wine importer, wine distributor’s scorecard)
BeverageTradeNetwork.com has prepared a distributors scorecard. As the owner of a beer, wine or spirits distribution company, you have to ask yourself and your management team, “how well did we do?”
Read more >Bucher Vaslin sets new standard for juice lees filtration
With some wine cross flows now running five vintages in a row on juice lees in Australia, the Flavy FX cross flow has proven to be more than efficient at processing the white juice lees from cold settling and floatation. The juice lees filtered with cross flow are very much preferred by the winemakers to the ones filtered through other more oxidative traditional ways such as RDV.
Read more >New wine closure benchmarking trial set to sparkle
The AWRI will be conducting the world’s first large-scale benchmarking trial for sparkling wine closures. The trial will evaluate the impact of a broad range of different closure technologies on a premium bottle-fermented Chardonnay Pinot Noir, and will run for an initial 24-month period.
Read more >What do wine, spirits and beer distributors really want?
BeverageTradeNetwork.com explores the seven most important wants of a distributor in a product they pick – and why it is important for you as a supplier?
Read more >Making an effective wine distributor sales call
Beverage Trade Network (BTN) looks at what distributors expect from a supplier visit. Distributors are looking for guidance and direction, and they are looking for better ways to sell your brands and products.
Read more >Getting your wine into Shanghai
Never has a question seemed so deceptively simple: what is the process for getting your wine into Shanghai? The first step is undoubtedly to spend longer than you would in other markets finding an importer.
Read more >Organic certified yeast: ViniFerm
Isolated for use on both conventional and organic wines, ViniFerm is the first active dry yeast on the market and is 100 per cent organic (produced to comply with EC/USDA regulations) from the selection program through to the production plant.
Read more >Scott’Tan Tannins now available through Lallemand Australia
Several years ago Scott Laboratories recognised winemaker’s needs for different tannins for new world wine styles and instead of simply buying European tannin blends designed for European winemaking methods, they invested in researching their own proprietary line of tannins.
Read more >Building a national wine, beer or beverage brand?
Branding requires extensive research and some interpretation on how to make your own brand stand out against the competition. It requires a sound marketing strategy on building a systematic approach to Branding.
Read more >VinCru 2014 update: Enzyme Solutions acquired by Connell Bros
2014 comes with the news that our supplier of enzymes (Enzyme Solutions) has been acquired by Connell Bros. which has an unmatched reputation in Asia-Pacific as the largest marketer and distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients. It is still the same Australian-made quality enzymes and fermentation aids proudly distributed by VinCru, which now with the backing of Connell Bros can only move towards bigger and better things.
Read more >5 key points you must cover in your wine distribution agreements
Wine distribution agreements come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes, to the horror of us lawyers, parties enter into distribution agreements without a written contract at all. While in some circumstances foregoing a written agreement may be to the advantage of one of the parties but in most cases, entering into a written distribution agreement is advisable and provides both parties with a road map to their obligations and rights in the relationship.
Read more >An effective solution against brettanomyces in wine
Brettanomyces or Dekkera is a threat to the quality of wines. These yeasts are capable of developing in difficult media at all stages of vinification, producing undesirable aromatic compounds such as volatile phenols which, in turn give rise to the perception of undesirable ‘animal-like’ or phamaceutical notes (leather, stables, bandages or medicinal). No Brett Inside is a new tool offered by Lallemand to effectively prevent Brettanomyces contamination.
Read more >Yeast Nutrition – FermControl & FermControl BIO
FermControl is a truly special, one of a kind yeast supplement for the support of the yeast metabolism. Due to its unique and unrivalled composition FermControl provides specific co-factors in order to secure an optimal, reliable and clean fermentation.
Read more >Calling all WA wineries and vineyards
Calling all WA wineries and vineyards: the February 2014 issue of Grapegrower & Winemaker focuses on Western Australia in its Regional Round-up. We’re looking for 5-7 businesses with an interesting story to tell about what’s happening in their neck of the woods.
Read more >Vintage prep before the Christmas rush
Believe it or not vintage is just around the corner – and rumours are that it will be early this year. So what better Christmas present to yourself than to have all your winemaking consumables set and ready to go so you can enjoy Christmas before all the craziness of vintage.
Read more >Online sales top exports to New Zealand
It is official – more Australian wine is now sold through online channels than exported to one of Australia’s biggest markets – New Zealand. And with high growth expected to continue no winery can afford to miss out on the growing opportunity to sell wine online.
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