The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) recently received a Tanner Award for the most-cited paper published in the journal Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety in 2013. The paper, entitled ‘The case for anthocyanin consumption to promote human health: a review’, was published with scientists from the Edmund Mach Foundation in Trento in Italy.
San Rafael, Calif.—After the announcement last week that veraison is happening in some Napa Valley vineyards, Wines & Vines asked sources in other areas how their grapes are faring so far this summer. Veraison has also begun in the vast Paso Robles region. At Halter Ranch in the Adelaida District, vineyard manager Lucas Pope reported that it is just starting, with colour on about 10% of the ranch, putting it on par with 2015, or about 3 weeks earlier than average.
Merlot may not be venerated in Australia and it’s been “abused” in the US, but the grape “deserves more attention”, according to winemaker Chris Carpenter. Carpenter, who works for Jackson Family Wines, and heads up the winemaking for the company’s Lokoya, Cardinale, La Jota and Mt Brave wineries in Napa, as well as Hickinbotham in McLaren Vale, told the drinks business earlier this month that he’s on a mission to raise the quality profile of Merlot, even though the majority of his wines are Cabernet-based.
AWARDS are nothing new to Ridgemill Estate. But that didn’t take the gloss off Peter McGlashan’s grin when he claimed the prestigious Queensland Winemaker Bursary earlier this month. The prize includes entry into an Advanced Wine Assessment Course at the Australian Wine Research Institute in Adelaide. “It’s a pretty amazing prize,” Mr McGlashan said.
Had sommelier William Wilson been creating a wine list for Sydney’s new International Convention Centre just 10 years ago, he says he would not have been able to rely on wines produced in this state. But this week a panel led by Mr Wilson is blind tasting more than 800 wines over four days, which it will narrow down to around 70 different products – 80 per cent of which will have been produced in NSW.
Waimea Estates winery are another Nelson winery to win medals at the San Francisco International Wine Competition. Waimea Estates left the competition with six medals overall, two gold and four silver. The winery’s Waimea Albariño 2015 and Spinyback Pinot Gris 2015 won a gold medal each. The Waimea Sauvignon Blanc 2015, Waimea Chardonnay 2014, Waimea Classic Riesling 2015 and Waimea Pinot Noir 2015 were all awarded Silver Medals.
One of Marlborough’s last remaining conventional sheep and beef farms in the lower Awatere Valley has been sold to Yealands Wine Estate for vineyard development. Straits View Farm, a 266 hectare property owned by Ken and Shirley Marfell in the valley, was bought by the wine producers for $4.35 million. The land is on the boundary of the 1000 hectare Yealands Estate, near Seddon, and will be developed into a vineyard.
A HISTORIC 125-year-old brick and stone building is the centrepiece of a ready-to-roll winery business for sale at Taminick in North East Victoria. Auldstone Cellars dates back to the 1880s with the cellar built in 1891, which has been extensively restored and includes a dining and tasting room and fully functioning winemaking equipment.
A HISTORIC 125-year-old brick and stone building is the centrepiece of a ready-to-roll winery business for sale at Taminick in North East Victoria. Auldstone Cellars dates back to the 1880s with the cellar built in 1891, which has been extensively restored and includes a dining and tasting room and fully functioning winemaking equipment.
Protecting historically important sites does not need to come at the expense of commercial development, members of a Marlborough iwi say. Last week two Rangitane o Wairau members, wine company owner Haysley MacDonald and his father Phillip MacDonald, reached an out-of-court settlement with Heritage New Zealand after facing charges for clearing scrub and constructing a fence near a historic pa site without permission.