Casella Family Brands has restructured, and is expanding, its national accounts team following an increase in sales for 2015.
The restructure has seen a number of changes for the company, with three key appointments coming to the national accounts team.
Tickets to the Wine Island festival, which will be held over three days from Friday, November 13 on Clark Island, went on sale at 9am Tuesday, September 1, but most of the 3000 tickets sold out within 15 minutes.
Some Sydney wine buffs have been left disappointed after missing out on tickets to the latest food and wine event to hit the city.
Winegrape growers are set to benefit from the latest research results and practical management options for the 2016 vintage by attending a National Wine and Grape Industry Centre (NWGIC) vine health field day at Griffith next week.
NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) viticulture development officers, Darren Fahey and Adrian Englefield, will be joined by some of Australia’s most respected scientists and viticulturists to deliver information tailored to meet industry priorities.
Australian wine drinkers are subtly changing their drinking habits, with research indicating that although consumers are drinking on a more regular basis, they are consuming less overall, according to a new report published today.
The Australia Landscapes 2015 report from Wine Intelligence found a slight decrease in volume of wine consumed, as well as a slight overall decrease in the wine-drinking population, with an estimated 11.2 million adults drinking wine at least once every month, down from 11.5 million in 2014.
Treasury Wine Estates chief executive Mike Clarke has collected a handsome pay packet of $4.45 million in his first full year at the helm of the maker of Penfolds, Wolf Blass and Rosemount, with his pay supercharged by the strong turnaround in the financial performance of the group.
Mr Clarke began as the chief executive of Treasury in late March 2014 and the company’s annual report lodged with the Australian Securities Exchange on Tuesday shows his total remuneration for the 12 months ended June 30, 2015 amounted to $4.45 million.
The discussion of what rules wineries should live with regarding production and visitation limits is complicated. But some salient factors seem self-evident.
The rules should be obeyed. The forthright policy of the Napa Valley Vintners Association is hard to argue with. They say wineries should comply with their use permits or other regulations and, if they cannot or don’t want to comply, they should seek to have them amended. Agreement that the rules should be obeyed is a good place to start.
A warming climate means grapes reach maturity more quickly. For some vintners, climate change seems to be a good thing. Then again, they could be mistaken. Researchers in Germany’s central state of Hessen are working to find out how it all affects the vines.
Geisenheim, Germany – The unmistakeable sound of hissing can be constantly heard in the vineyards of Geisenheim, in Germany’s central wine-growing region of the Rheingau.
In a large outdoor testing area, Geisenheim College researchers are pumping grape vines with artificially high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Winemaker Lauren Swift has credited a Marlborough winery for her win in the Young Winemaker of the Year award.
Swift grew up in the Awatere Valley and went to school in Seddon and at the Marlborough Girls’ College, before moving to study wine at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawkes Bay.
She was awarded the inaugural Tonnellerie de Mercurey Young Winemaker of the Year Award at the Romeo Bragato wine industry event in Napier last week.
Foley Family Wines, which is controlled by American billionaire Bill Foley, says full-year operating earnings more than doubled on increased sales of bottled wine and modest profit from a growing pool of bulk wine.
Operating earnings before revaluations and tax rose to $3.5 million in the 12 months ended June 30, from $1.2M a year earlier, the Blenheim-based company said in a statement.
A series of West Australian viticultural and winemaking trials were put to the palate-test this month as part of an inaugural event.
The Department of Agriculture and Food of WA (DAFWA) facilitated a tasting workshop, at the Margaret River Education Campus, where winemakers provided feedback on different wine trials.