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Australia is likely to boast the most accurate record of its vineyards in the world in a matter of months thanks to advanced software that combines high-resolution satellite imagery and artificial intelligence.
First published in the May/June 2018 issue of the Wine & Viticulture Journal
The marketplace for vineyard and winery acquisitions in Australia has reached a point where there is renewed and, in some cases, substantial competition, writes Stephen Strachan in his annual review of this market for the Wine & Viticulture Journal.
A search for the keywords ‘crushing’ or ‘destemming’ or ‘pressing’ in the leading oenology and viticulture journals turns up hundreds of results. On closer inspection, virtually every article mentions these juice handling processes in passing, as part of the experimental methods en route to the actual point of the research – a point which ends up having little to do with juice handling.
It’s been 10 years since the Wine & Viticulture Journal last tasted Cabernet Sauvignon. Back then, the wines tasted had RRPs of $50 and above. In tasting Cabernet Sauvignon again for this issue of the Journal, we looked at wines with RRPs of $20 and over.
Margaret River is one of Australia’s premier regions for Cabernet Sauvignon. A group of wineries from the region have recently submitted an application to Wine Australia’s geographical indications committee for Wilyabrup, a district within the region, to be have its own geographical indication. Damien Wilson, associate professor at the Wine Business Institute at Sonoma State University in California, provides some interesting food for thought in this issue, exploring the arguments for and against such proposals for sub-regional identification within an existing geographical indication.
In this issue, our regular viticulture writer Tony Hoare presents the first of two installments about his family’s journey into alternative varieties and his advice to others considering wandering down the same path.
Stephen Strachan, from Gaetjens Langley, provides his annual look at the sales of vineyards and wineries in Australia over the past 12 months. It is a marketplace, he says, that has reached a point where there is renewed if not substantial competition.
In the March-April issue of the Wine & Viticulture Journal, editor Sonya Logan asked why Australia’s uptake of rootstocks for phylloxera control was so poor. The two main reasons were the effectiveness of phylloxera management strategies that ensure the pest isn’t an immediate threat in areas outside phylloxera infested zones, and the substantial cost of replanting. Richard Smart and Helen Waite have responded to Sonya’s article, saying there is a third but not highly-appreciated reason for the slow uptake.
The theme of the May-June issue is Vineyard Technology and to that end we have Sigfredo Fuentes and Eden Tongson from The University of Melbourne writing about advances and requirements for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in viticulture. On a similar theme, Sonya catches up with the team behind GAIA, another machine learning application which looks set to save growers the hassle of completing vineyard surveys and give us the best comprehension of our national vineyard than any other country in the world.
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