Winegrape growers in the Murray-Darling and Swan Hill regions have voted decisively in favour of another four-year term for the Murray Valley Wine Grape Industry Development Order. This is the statutory provision that underpins the collection of levies by the Murray Valley Wine Grape Industry Development Committee (IDC).
After a week of swirling and spitting the results of the 2016 Royal Adelaide Wine Show are finally in – and while Adelaide can still safely lay claim to being the Wine Capital of Australia with South Australian
producers dominating the trophy tally, it was a Western Australian wine that took home the gold.
The South Australian Wine Industry Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Environmental Excellence Awards on the theme of Leadership.
SOUTH Australia’s liquor laws have hardly changed over the past two decades. Now the State Government is proposing a raft of reforms to modernise the way we all enjoy a drink.
Jeannie Cho Lee is one of three people charged with choosing what wines will appear on board Singapore Airlines’ flights. She is Asia’s first Master of Wine and is also an award-winning author, wine critic, judge and educator. She was born in South Korea and has lived in Hong Kong since early 1994.
Australia peak farm lobby hopes the release of a foreign-owned farm register will allay concerns about Chinese investment.
Marlborough is known for its sauvignon blanc, but reds could be the order of the day if global temperatures continue to climb. Plant and Food scientist Mike Trought said increasing temperatures might change the areas particular grape varieties could be grown.
Last week I did a wine-blending exercise with Anthony Walkenhorst, winemaker at Kim Crawford winery in Marlborough, New Zealand, while he was visiting Ottawa.
Millennials, whose baby boomer parents were the first generation of U.S. premium wine drinkers, are consuming more and higher-value wines, driven by a thirst for quality, new experiences and information-sharing, according to wine industry leaders surveyed by UC Davis.
Women winemakers are on the rise in South Australia. At a time when the state is facing decline in traditionally male-dominated fields such as manufacturing, women are finding success among the vines and encouraging others to join the industry.