Despite the highs and lows of the Australian wine industry, one small-scale producer is celebrating record profits.
Scenic Rim grower David McMaugh owns and operates the Bunjurgan Estate Vineyard, where he has increased his revenue by 22 per cent in the past financial year.
As the value of New Zealand wine exports has grown by seven per cent to reach a record $1.42billion this year, expansion in the United States market is playing a big part, New Zealand Winegrowers say.
”This pushed wine to become New Zealand’s sixth-largest export good by value,” winegrowers chairman Steve Green said in the association’s annual report.
Four Barossa wineries have pooled resources to benefit financially disadvantaged youth, through a project that will fund traineeships.
Kaesler Wines, Seppeltsfield Winery, Torbreck Vintners and Two Hands Wines each contributed one tonne of premium Shiraz grapes for the Concordis project, producing 1600 magnums to be sold as a fundraiser.
Following an exceptional summer of dry and hot weather, the harvest in Beaujolais starts today, three weeks earlier than last year. The official start date was set as August 24 in comparison to September 10 in 2014.
Marlborough is well-known as one of New Zealand’s premier wine regions and has the best potential for grape growing in New Zealand.
Now, a Marlborough winemaker is making great strides with a high quality chardonnay grape juice that is alcohol free. The grape juice is made to Jewish kosher standards and is endorsed by the ?Kashrut Authority of Australia & NZ.
The wine industry’s annual Romeo Bragato conference will feature four finalists from the Cawthron Marlborough Environmental Awards at a workshop highlighting sustainability practices in the region.
The three-day annual conference opens on Wednesday in Napier and will showcase marketing trends and research innovation in the industry.
Two Pyrenees Shire wineries will represent Australia on the world stage in France later this year at the prestigious VITeff sparkling wine technology exhibition.
Blue Pyrenees and Taltarni are two of just seven Australian wineries to be chosen to attend the exhibition in Champagne. Of the seven chosen, three are from Victoria and four from South Australia.
Wrapped tightly in sleeping bags to keep them from freezing in frigid conditions, Australian winemaker Sirromet’s bottles slowly make their way across the vast Mongolian landscape on the back of a yak.
The wine’s journey from Queensland, about 9,500 kilometres (5,900 miles) as the crow flies, to isolated parts of the sparsely-populated Asian nation is one example of the growing appeal of vintages from ‘down under’.
Ross Tan and Nick van Leeuwen of Australian Natural have spent most of their first year in business relentlessly promoting their organic and biodynamic wines in China. Here is a quick and dirty earthy interview about their organic wines and their views of the market.
Treasury Wine Estates chief executive Mike Clarke is annoyed that one of his main brands, Rosemount, has been an underperformer for so long at a time when most of the other brands in his stable are performing strongly.
Rosemount, which came into the firm’s stable in 2001 when BRW Rich Lister Bob Oatley sold it for a whopping $1.4 billion after building it up as a private company over three decades, is one of the 15 “priority” brands that Mr Clarke has stepped up investment behind since taking over as Treasury chief executive in March 2014.