An election is currently in progress for the vacant position on the AWRI Board of Directors in the small producer category (less than 2,000 tonnes). The AWRI’s Constitution provides that there will be between seven and eleven directors on the AWRI Board. Six of those directors are nominated and elected by organisations that pay the Wine Grapes Levy (levy payers), divided into three categories divided by the size of production.
An election is currently in progress for the vacant position on the AWRI Board of Directors in the small producer category (less than 2,000 tonnes). The AWRI’s Constitution provides that there will be between seven and eleven directors on the AWRI Board. Six of those directors are nominated and elected by organisations that pay the Wine Grapes Levy (levy payers), divided into three categories divided by the size of production.
Stanko Radikon of Radikon Wines in Friuli, north-east Italy, has passed away. The winemaker was a trailblazer for the natural wine movement who inspired a new generation of winemakers in Friuli, Australia and beyond.
The wine industry needs to act now rather than waiting for Brexit, the WSTA has told members on the day of its annual conference.
Friday marked the first online wine festival that was hosted on e-commerce and trading platform Alibaba’s TMall, which boasted more than 100,000 wines that went up for sale.
Is there further upside for New Zealand’s booming wine sector? The answer is yes. An export industry which has experienced strong growth in recent years, NZ viticulture has played an important role in providing a new source of grow for the country’s agribusiness sector.
Making great wine is only part of the wine business. After ensuring the quality is as good as it can be wine producers need to sell their product and because there are so many great wines available it is getting more difficult every year to get on to wine lists or supermarket and liquor store shelves.
13 September 2016: Wineries have the rest of the week to enter this year’s Sydney International Wine Competition. Entries close on Friday 16 September, with judging samples required by 23 September.
Uniquely, the Sydney International Wine Competition judges all its finalists in combination with appropriate food to make the Top 1OO and Blue/Gold winners more relevant to consumers.
Entry for the 37th Sydney International Wine Competition is capped at 2000 wines, with just over 250 places still available for entry.
A couple of months before he died in 2001, I interviewed veteran wine merchant Dan Murphy, then a frail 84-year-old living in a small unit in suburban Melbourne. Dan told me about his early years selling wine, first in the early 1950s from a small licensed grocery in Chapel Street, Prahran, then in the mid-60s from the much larger Prahran Arcade next door.
We all see it and taste it differently but the one thing everyone needs to remember is that wine is all about pleasure. It’s just a drink, often one with an aura of mystique, and sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes it’s not. Nick Stock reports for the Herald Sun.