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Munda Wines brings Indigenous culture to the table
Munda Wines is the new premium wine label of First Nations leader Paul Vandenbergh who wants to ignite discussion about Aboriginal culture and create career pathways for young Indigenous people in the wine industry. Pick up a bottle of just about any South Australian wine and on the back of the label you’re likely to read about multi-generational winemakers, European techniques and the French concept of terroir. This is one of the questions that led Paul Vandenbergh on a path to create a new wine label that makes a hero of munda – the Wirangu and Kokatha word for land – and celebrates Country before all else.
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Yealands becomes NZ’s first winery to sign a sustainability linked loan
Yealands Wine Group has signed a new Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) with Auckland Savings bank. The Sustainability Linked Loan requires Yealands to commit to key environmental, social or governance targets, with borrowing costs adjusted based on its performance against these targets. This aims to reduce total emissions and intensity by five per cent per annum.
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Still wine needs to look to the success of sparkling wine in Norway
COVID border restrictions in Norway triggered a surge in domestic wine sales as drinkers were unable to access the border shops in neighbouring Sweden or travel retail outlets and had to source their wine domestically. Monopoly sales of still wine increased by more than 40 per cent between 2020 and 2021. Already in 2022, as footfall to the border increases, sales in Vinmonopolet are correcting themselves, but the still wine category will likely hold onto some volume.
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Students to share spray drift research with viticulture industry
Two students are hoping the viticulture industry will turn out to hear their research on spray drift next week. Marlborough Girls’ College students Rebecca Bassett and Aroha Ward have been working closely with Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand (SWNZ) for their Environmental Studies project this year, on the topic of spray drift. The Year 13 students […]
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Shaw + Smith releases first wines from McLaren Vale joint purchase
Shaw + Smith has added a new range to its growing portfolio, releasing its first McLaren Vale wines under the MMAD Vineyard label. ‘MMAD’ is an acronym of the first initials of Martin Shaw, Michael Hill-Smith, Adam Wadewitz and David LeMire of Adelaide Hills winery Shaw + Smith. The new imprint joins Tolpuddle of Tasmania […]
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Economic tensions are high. What does this mean for premium beverage alcohol in the US?
Alcohol consumption in the US has been relatively stable over the past 40 years despite economic ups and downs in the country; total beverage alcohol consumption in the US shows a +0.51% volume CAGR, 1980-2020. As we enter a new period of economic instability, what will this mean specifically for premium-and-above alcohol in the US? […]
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Large spam fine for online wine store
An online wine retailer has been fined more than $200,000 for breaching spam and telemarketing laws. The Wine Group, which retails as Oak Road Estate and Top Drop, sent unsolicited texts to customers who had unsubscribed and made telemarketing calls to phones on the Do Not Call register.
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Listen: Global warming is changing Australian wines
Australian consumers are being invited to refresh their palate. Aussie producers are evolving their practices to adapt to the impacts of climate change, meaning the wines you buy now, could be out of fashion, or more hard to come by in a decades time.
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How French winegrowers are breathing new life into heritage grape varieties
Around twenty grape varieties cover 90 per cent of vineyard acreage in France, compared with 400 French grape varieties kept at the INRAe vineyard conservation collection at Domaine de Vassal near Montpellier in the South of France. Winegrowers dotted around are reverting to more traditional varieties.
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New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc sees premiumisation spike
Premiumisation in Sauvignon Blanc has spiked over the last two years, with more highly priced wines accounting for three quarters of New Zealand Sauvignon sold on the UK market in 2021. Sauvignon Blanc wines have seen a shift towards premiumisation over the last two years, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise revealed at a trade tasting […]
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Tonnes of grapes ‘left to rot’ as Australia struggles to shift wine
The ongoing tariff dispute between Australia and China has led to millions of grapes being left to rot at vineyards across the country, despite a good vintage. The Chinese market for Australian wine, once Australia’s key sales channel, has shrunk by 97 per cent since sky-high tariffs were imposed in 2020. The penalty has led […]
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Supplies of transparent bottles for white and rosé wines turn into a “nightmare”
When asked how supplies of transparent bottles for white and rosé wines are panning out in the first half of 2022 for the 2021 vintage, Arnaud Sauvaire of the namesake estate in AOC Languedoc sums up the situation as “a nightmare”.
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India-Australia comprehensive economic cooperation agreement
In September 2021, Ministers Tehan and Goyal formally re-launched the India-Australia Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement negotiations (CECA). They reaffirmed their commitment to conclude a CECA, including to reach an interim agreement by December 2021 to liberalise and deepen bilateral trade in goods and services, and to conclude the negotiations on a full CECA by the […]
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Australia struggling for wine diversity
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business,” The words of TS Eliot are ones for Australian vintners to live by – particularly if they fancy selling wine abroad. Unfortunately, it’s not so much a mountain they have to climb, as a 10-million-meter high volcano. Ever since Beijing fell out […]
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California gets a new wine region
San Luis Obispo County in California has a new, officially recognised wine region – the SLO Coast. Here’s everything you need to know about it. The SLO Coast Wine Collective announced on Wednesday that the San Luis Obispo Coast has been recognised as the newest American Viticultural Area by the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax […]
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Granite Belt’s next generation of winemakers set to move in, but there will be challenges
Sales of several well-known wineries in Queensland’s Granite Belt could bring the next generation of winemakers. Experts say the region is ready to grow off the back of a successful tourism season and favourable weather. However, Seasonal worker shortages and climate change will be challenges for the future
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