It won’t be long before cellar doors are humming once again. Holiday makers, tourists and locals alike are keener than ever to get up close and personal with the store front of a wine label.

Trevor Wicks made a significant contribution as a plant pathologist to Australian primary industries across a career spanning more than 40 years. Trevor made an enormous contribution to the Australian wine and viticulture industry across several decades, through development and evaluation of many new fungicides and fungicide application programs that revolutionised the viticulture industry.

The Turnbull Government is holding meetings with representatives from state and regional wine associations and local winemakers as part of its consultation on the implementation of tightened eligibility criteria for the wine equalisation tax (WET) rebate.

The ASX-listed owner of the McGuigan, Tempus Two and Nepenthe wine brands has secured two important distribution deals in China as it strives to emulate the success of the much-larger Treasury Wine Estates, which is delivering riches for its own shareholders.

Former Halliday magazine editor Campbell Mattinson was awarded the Chairman’s Award at the prestigious Louis Roederer Wine Writers’ Awards in London last week for the limited edition run of his book, The Wine Hunter: The Life Story of Australia’s First Great Winemaker.

We get the inside scoop on Winemaker of the Year Sarah Crowe. Here, the talented winemaker reveals how she’s taken the Yarra Valley by storm, boldly taking the reins of its iconic Yarra Yering winery.

Wine Business Solutions has just released Wine On-Premise USA 2016, the first ever research into the independently owned On-Trade in the US. More than 36,000 listings from licensed On-Premise venues were collected at random across all states of the US.

The wine collection of late Chesapeake Energy Corp. co-founder Aubrey McClendon sold for $8.44 million on Saturday, above the estimated range and breaking records for some of the rare French bottles.

Consultation on reform of the Wine Equalisation Tax Rebate starts next week with exactly who will be eligible for the scaled back rebate high on the agenda.

Morgan Stanley is understood to be one of the banks that will secure a joint lead manager role to float Accolade Wines, according to sources.