The South Australian Farmers Federation says there is damage to some wheat and other cereal crops from heavy rain. There is concern grape crops also may have suffered damage from weekend rain, reports ABC Online.

The South Australian Farmers Federation says there is damage to some wheat and other cereal crops from heavy rain. There is concern grape crops also may have suffered damage from weekend rain, reports ABC Online.

The South Australian Farmers Federation says there is damage to some wheat and other cereal crops from heavy rain. There is concern grape crops also may have suffered damage from weekend rain, reports ABC Online.

The countries newest wine region is rolling up its sleeves to pop the corks for 6000 visitors.
ABC Rural reports A Day on the Green, a music festival held at wineries, has just been announced it will be coming to the New England region of NSW for the first time

The countries newest wine region is rolling up its sleeves to pop the corks for 6000 visitors.
ABC Rural reports A Day on the Green, a music festival held at wineries, has just been announced it will be coming to the New England region of NSW for the first time

Amps Fine Wine is heading to New Zealand after coming top in a competition encouraging on-trade buyers to boost wine sales. Harpers reports the incentive competition, which coincided with the Rugby World Cup, was held by New Zealand Winegrowers along with tournament organisers NZ2011. The aim was to encourage on-trade buyers to increase the diversity of New Zealand varietals offered by the glass and on main wine lists.

Amps Fine Wine is heading to New Zealand after coming top in a competition encouraging on-trade buyers to boost wine sales. Harpers reports the incentive competition, which coincided with the Rugby World Cup, was held by New Zealand Winegrowers along with tournament organisers NZ2011. The aim was to encourage on-trade buyers to increase the diversity of New Zealand varietals offered by the glass and on main wine lists.

The week before Christmas can be stressful. Organise the drinks ahead of time, from festive rosato to sparkling reds, writes Jane Faulkner in the weekend’s The Age. And firston the list, is the exciting Australian first Chalmers Nero D’Avola Rosato, a juicy Sicilian red, with fruit grown at Heathcote.

The season’s deep discounting and the accelerated fall in wine volumes in the last weeks of the year will have a lingering hangover effect on the trade in 2012. That’s the opinion of sector leaders and analysts, who foresee volumes falling by up to 5% and up to one million wine drinkers leaving the category by the end of the year, reports Harpers Wine & Spirits Trade Review.

The 2012 winegrape crop should amount to 1,351 714 tons, according to industry (producer cellars and viticultural consultants) estimates on 29 November 2011. South African wine news site, wine.co.za, reports the early vintage figures represent an increase of 3.9% compared to the 2011 crop, but is nevertheless 5.2% smaller than the record crop of 2008. The 2012 wine crop – including juice and concentrate for non-alcoholic purposes, wine for brandy and distilling wine – is expected to amount to 1 043.4 million litres.