Category: Australian Wine Industry News
Multi-million dollar BWS campaign boosts independent potential
Image: Rob & Tom Lightfoot Over 600 billboards and digital screens promoting 92 local, independent, Australian brewers, winemakers and distillers have been rolled out across the country as part of BWS new multi-million dollar ‘Local Luvva’ campaign. “We know that COVID-19 has hit our independent suppliers the hardest, which is why we want to do […]
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Cask wine is on the up
After years in decline, cask wine has recorded an increase in sales. Retail sales of wine have also seen an increase as fewer people spend nights at restaurants because of the COVID-19 pandemic. NSW Riverina Winemakers Association president Andrew Calabria said the full impact and how long the recovery would take was difficult to predict […]
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Australian wine exports holding up well
In 2019–20, the average value of Australian wine exports grew to $3.89 per litre free on board (FOB), the highest level since 2004–05. However, the total value of exports decreased by one percent in value to $2.84 billion, as a result of measures to contain COVID-19. Wine Australia chief executive officer Andreas Clark said exports […]
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Pregnancy warning made compulsory on alcohol within three years
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand have introduced new norms regarding alcohol consumption during pregnancy. The Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation acknowledged it this week. Moreover, they have pushed back the deadline for multi-colored pregnancy warning tags on alcohol. These tags are now going to be imprinted in red, black and white, and will read a […]
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The last word in regional pride
By Samuel Squire The $5 million Barossa Cellar project has had a vineyard planted with top end Shiraz vines donated from some of the region’s most iconic vineyards. The Barossa Cellar vineyard was established to help raise money to fund the $5m community project, which has now been completed. The 1ha vineyard has become the […]
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Australian Canada agreement to improve wine market access
Australian Grape & Wine welcomes today’s announcement that the Australian and Canadian Governments have reached an agreement to remove discriminatory measures impeding Australian wine sales in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Ontario. The agreement, led by Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Simon Birmingham, is the culmination of intense negotiations resulting directly from […]
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SA anti-counterfeit tech company Cellr backed by Australia’s top wine fraud expert
South Australian winetech company Cellr has announced its exclusive partnership with Australia’s most qualified wine authentication expert, Scott Evers, who will also be their new brand ambassador. Among a global list of auction houses and private clients in the fine wine space, Evers is the wine authentication and fraud consultant for Langton’s Wine Auctions. Cellr […]
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Penfolds sommelier takes home AWAC Scholarship
Image: Mark Kustos sampling wines on a tasting panel. Credit: Winetitles. The Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology (ASVO) has announced Marcell Kustos, head sommelier at Penfolds, as the recipient of the Advanced Wine Assessment Course (AWAC) Scholarship. This year, the ASVO is again supporting one of its members to participate in the Advanced Wine […]
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McWilliam’s Wines may have been insolvent six weeks before bust
Image: The entrance to McWilliam’s Wines’ Hanwood Estate in the Riverina AFR reported McWilliam’s Wines may have gone under six weeks before it announced the company would be going into voluntary administration. In the article, KPMG says the historic Australian wine company McWilliam’s Wines may have been insolvent almost six weeks before it was appointed […]
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Ensuring the continued success of organic exports
The Australian Government is proposing new rules to continue to provide a basis for the regulation of organic exports, and as a first step in strengthening and simplifying the current framework. Head of exports division Fran Freeman said Australia’s organic products are meeting the growing demand for high-quality organic agricultural produce around the world. A […]
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Industry “disappointed” about new pregnancy warning label system
Australian Grape & Wine (AGW) has announced its disappointment at the decision of Food Forum Ministers to approve what the organisation says is a “flawed” label that will cost industry and consumers $400m. In requiring the warning label to carry specific colours – rather than simply mandating legibility and contrast standards – AGW believes Food […]
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Private equity in the box seat to pick up McWilliam’s Wines
Private equity firm Prcstnt (pronounced “persistent”) Asset Management is in the box seat to pick up one of Australia’s oldest family-owned wine companies, McWilliam’s Wines Group, with creditors to vote on a $50 million deal next week. McWilliam’s was ranked Australia’s seventh biggest wine company by revenue in a recent report by The Australian & […]
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New research to help Australian wineries find novel ways of managing smoke taint
Image: Senior winemaker at Cassegrain Wines, Alex Cassegrain. The federal government has announced a $950,000 CRC-P grant in support of a $2.3 million industry-research project to commercially develop new methodologies and strategies for the Australian wine industry to manage taint from grapes exposed to bushfire smoke. Producing wine in Australia has become increasingly challenging. Grape […]
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Continued closed borders leads Sydney International Wine Competition to cancel 2020 event
The closure of the Victorian border and the impact that will have on access to other states, as well as continued closure of international borders, has persuaded the Sydney International Wine Competition (SIWC) to cancel the annual event for the first time in its 40 year history. The likelihood that travel and freight will be […]
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Podcast: Big production loss in latest grape harvest in Tasmania
Figures from Wine Tasmania show the vintage this year is down 28 per cent from last year’s record harvest. Paul Smart from Wine Tasmania says a dry winter last year combined with a windy spring stopped fruit set.
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Adelaide Hills releases fundraising wine
Just before Christmas last year, devastating bushfires swept through South Australia’s Adelaide Hills, affecting almost 30 percent of the region’s vineyard plantings. Now, all proceeds from the sale of a new wine, which has been made with juice from 21 local producers, will go back into the community. The project aims to raise about $200,000 […]
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