Despite the massive re-shaping of Australia’s wine landscape now under way, South Australia remains — and looks set to remain — not just our biggest wine producer, but our biggest premium-wine producer. The massive explosion of vine planting and re-writing of our wine map shows in preliminary data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), … Continue reading South Australia — still the wine state
Riesling master John Vickery invites Australia’s wine writers to explore thirty years of riesling
Bruce Brown, Southcorp’s New South Wales’ Viticultural Manager, says his company’s New South Wales annual grape intake should jump from 12,500 tonnes to 52,000 tonnes over the next five years, underlining just how important vineyards along NSW’s Great Divide are to be to the fine wine industry next century.Eliminating grapes from other areas from those … Continue reading Tethering the mighty bush to the wine world (with apologies to Manning Clark)
As a global red-wine shortage drives local prices up, rising quality of the local product compensates for the bigger price tag
As the Barossa Valley and Limestone Coast vie for number one spot in Aussie wine’s premium stakes, Barossa Valley Estates is delivering regional specialties at realistic prices
Australia’s wine industry is on the verge of unprecedented change and expansion
Masked tastings reveals the real gems
Mudgee with its historic connection to the Hunter Valley and benign climate is attracting massive new investments in vineyards
The Australian wine industry backs Wine Australia — a major exhibiton of Australian Wine to be held every two years starting in 1996 in Sydney
Penfolds winemakers have a charter to make ‘white grange’. And they have a clean slate. Semillon and chardonnay are the insider runners but the odds are on chardonnay to prevail