Industry cool on SA bid to become a Great Wine Capital

The Weatherill Government wants to formalise South Australia as a Great Wine Capital, but the industry isn’t convinced. The Great Wine Capitals scheme is a network of international cities which, according to the group’s website, “share a key economic and cultural asset: their internationally renowned wine regions”. Rodney Harrex, chief executive of the SA Tourism Commission, confirmed in a Budget and Finance Committee hearing last week that SATC and the Department of Primary Industries were spearheading a push to enrol SA in the group.