CHAMP Private Equity is aiming to raise $600 million from public market investors when it returns the nation’s second-largest wine company, Accolade Wines, to the Australian stock exchange next year.

Australia’s wine industry has attracted more Chinese investment after Wei Long Grape Wine Co said it had agreed to buy hundreds of hectares of vineyards for 13 million Australian dollars.

One of China’s largest winemakers, Weilong Grape Wine Company, has spent $13.4m buying Australian vineyards and plans further investment in Australian wine.

Overshadowed by Marlborough’s glamorous, bustling, ever-expanding industry over the hills to the south-east, Nelson is one of the country’s small wine regions. This year, it produced just over 2% of New Zealand wine.

Berkmann Wine Cellars will become the exclusive agent in the UK for New Zealand producer, Mahi Wines.

On a trip to hipster central, Adam Lechmere meets some off-piste, modern Aussie winemakers.

GEOGRAPHICAL indications could become a selling point for Australian producers just as they are in Europe.

An absolutely stunning year for Geographe.

Climate change threatens to cut down an industry that’s thriving.

BEHIND the romance of the wine industry, and the tours and tastings at cellar doors, there are huge environmental impacts no one sees.