Wineries in major merger

THE Beelgara Estate and the Orange-based Cumulus Wines companies are merging to create a venture marketing more than 400,000 cases of wine a year and with gross revenue of $20million. Beelgara, which trades as Wine Insights, owns the former Rossetto winery in the NSW Riverina and has a portfolio that includes the Beelgara brands and the Margaret River Moss Bros, the Coonawarra Riddoch Run and the multi-regional Beelgara Estate and The Habitat labels.