The Australian Wine Industry’s most prestigious award, the 2012 McWilliam’s Maurice O’Shea Award, was last night awarded to the Australian Screwcap Initiative.
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More than one-sixth of Australia’s vineyards are unprofitable and supply exceeds demand by more than twenty percent, according to a frank new report from the nation’s leading peak bodies.
readPlans for a highway bypass that would threaten vineyards in South Australia’s Coonawarra region have been delayed indefinitely.
readSouth Australia’s oldest commercial vineyard site has been sold to developers to be subdivided for housing. The Stony Hill vineyard at Old Reynella in McLaren Vale was first planted to Cabernet Sauvignon in 1838 by the district’s first settler, John Reynell.
readAustralian growers are shocked over an announcement this week that the majority of the country’s plantings of the Spanish variety Albariño are, in fact, the French variety Savagnin Blanc.
readMonths after a record heat wave in February helped spark a wave of devastating wildfires across Australia’s southern state of Victoria, the country’s wine industry is beginning to come to grips with the extent of damage to vineyards, wineries and lives.
readA blistering heatwave has swept through south-eastern Australia, scorching vineyards and decimating harvest forecasts.
readVineyards and wineries in Victoria’s premium wine growing region of the Yarra Valley have been destroyed as bushfires continue to ravage the state, in what has been named Australia’s worst peace time disaster, claiming more than 200 lives and leaving 6000 homeless.
readA new Phylloxera outbreak in Victoria’s prestigious Yarra Valley has sparked concern over the extent of the spread of the aphid across the wine region.
readOctober 30, 2009, 2am. Alarms are sounding all over Marlborough. The livelihood of New Zealand’s premier wine region is under attack.
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