Tesco has announced it will be taking a stand at this year’s London International Wine Fair (LIWF). The retail giant is keen to make it easy for suppliers to meet with its BWS buyers in an effort to taste new products and hear fresh ideas. The wine team are setting up a “Dragons Den” style opportunity for anyone who thinks they have a good idea to come and meet with them, reports The Drinks Business.
Tesco has announced it will be taking a stand at this year’s London International Wine Fair (LIWF). The retail giant is keen to make it easy for suppliers to meet with its BWS buyers in an effort to taste new products and hear fresh ideas. The wine team are setting up a “Dragons Den” style opportunity for anyone who thinks they have a good idea to come and meet with them, reports The Drinks Business.
Leading New Zealand wine company, Waipara Hills, has today announced its sponsorship of the highly anticipated Masterclass Series at The Food Show in Wellington next month. The Food Show is New Zealand’s largest culinary event, held annually in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. It gives Kiwis the opportunity to sample the latest products from hundreds of exhibitors, gather ideas for home entertaining and learn from local and international food experts, reports Voxy News.
Winery and cellar door operators are being invited to a seminar to learn about the recent changes to the Liquor Licensing Act and the R&D Tax Incentive. Audit, tax and advisory firm, BDO, will host the event on Thursday 3 May in McLaren Vale, providing participants with presentations that will highlight the flexibility and impacts on their the winery, vineyard or cellar door.
Vintage 2012 will be a year of note for more reasons than quality and size. It is also the year where groundbreaking viticulture research into mildew resistant vines moves from the vineyard into the winery. The CSIRO has started small-scale ferments from new grapevines, bred through Marker Assisted Breeding (MAB) methods, which are resistant to powdery and downy mildew.
Wine lovers are being invited to ‘get their wine on’ next week at EastEndWineDown, a wine tasting event that forms part of the Tasting Australia experience. The event will take place Thursday 3 May and will see 14 winemakers from across South Australia come together at East End Cellars, in Adelaide’s east end, to showcase the best of their wares.
More than 300 classic cars will tour through McLaren Vale stopping at various wineries this weekend. About 10,000 people are expected to line the streets for the 7th annual Vintage and Classic event on Sunday, April 29. The cars will start on Main Rd at 11am and travel to various wineries where they will be on display from noon to 3.30pm, reports the Southern Times Messenger.
Hunter wine makers say the NSW government will lose more than $40 million a year in revenues if it allows coal seam gas exploration and production to operate in the region’s wine tourism areas. Using government data, the Hunter Wine Industry Association estimated the government would receive $8.6 million a year in coal seam gas royalties, a small amount compared with the risk the industry posed to the $1 billion of investments in wine and tourism, reports the Newcastle Herald.
Washington state’s wine industry is growing rapidly – in the past seven years the number of wineries has doubled to 700 and it is now valued at $8.6 billion (£5.3 billion) in the state. The economic impact study by the Washington State Wine Commission estimated that just five years ago the industry was valued at $3 billion. The report also valued the industry at $14.9 billion, up from $4.7 billion in 2007, throughout the USA, reports Harpers Wine & Spirit.
Wine producers are looking to smaller markets like Canada for strong growth potential and better pricing, according to most recent Rabobank Wine Quarterly report. Canada is an attractive export market, at a time when they are in short supply. It is the sixth-largest wine importer and consumes about 480 million litres of wine per year, making it roughly one third the size of the UK market. Yet unlike the UK, which has seen a slide on wine sales and profits, Canada is carrying momentum with consumption growing by 30% since 2006, reports The Drinks Business.