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Australia to lose a quarter of crop to drought, frost
Nationwide drought and severe frosts could reduce Australia’s grape crop by a quarter and cause hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
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Australian wine industry slashes surplus estimate
Australia’s wine industry surplus is only about half the 900m litres it was thought to be, decanter.com has learned.
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Foster’s to truck grapes across Australia
Foster’s is planning to truck 4,500 tonnes of grapes from Western Australia to South Australia to cope with shortages in supply.
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Penfolds Bin 707 is Australia’s top export wine
Penfolds has won the trophy for Australia’s best export wine of 2007, ahead of over 18,000 other wines.
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Winery carbon footprint calculator online
A carbon footprint calculator which works out the effect of emissions from waste management, fuel use, refrigeration and other winery operations is being tested in the New World.
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AUS$50k Grange leads Langton’s pack
Penfold’s Grange dominated the 2007 wine auction list compiled by leading Australian auctioneer Langton’s.
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McGuigan, Tyrrell step up for stricken Draytons
Four giants of the Australian wine industry have offered to take over the vintage at Drayton’s Family Wines following the death of winemaker Trevor Drayton.
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Trevor Drayton: obituary
Trevor Drayton, who died yesterday, would often say, ‘I can’t understand what all the fuss is about’ when discussing wine industry issues at the many committee meetings he attended.
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Grange 2003 released
Penfolds has released its 2003 Grange with an estimated price tag of up to AUS$550 (£260, US$510) a bottle.
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Penfolds wine named best Australian export
Penfolds 2005 Bin 144 Yattarna Chardonnay was named Australia's best export wine for 2008 by the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (AWBC).
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Australia: Bruce Kemp takes on WFA chair
Bruce Kemp has been appointed president of the Winemakers Federation of Australia.
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Constellation puts Goundrey on the market
Constellation Wines is selling Goundrey Wines in Western Australia’s Great Southern region for almost AUS$9m.
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Wolf Blass launches first plastic bottles in Australia
Wolf Blass is launching two wines in plastic bottles next week – the first 750ml plastic bottles in Australia.
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Foster’s challenged on plastic bottles
Queensland’s Sirromet Wines has challenged reports that Wolf Blass launched the first wines in Australia in 750ml plastic bottles.
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John Vickery retires
John Vickery, considered to be Australia’s ‘father of Riesling’ and one of the country’s greatest winemakers, has retired.