Australia harvest 'slashed by up to half'
Australia’s unrelenting drought looks set to slash the 2008 grape harvest by up to half, driving grape growers and wine producers out of business and forcing a structural change in the industry.
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Cheap Grange, Cristal, Hill of Grace in Australian auction
A bidding frenzy has greeted the opening of the biggest wine auction in Australia’s history, with wines including Henschke’s Hill of Grace and Penfolds Grange starting at AUS$9.
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Australia updates Strategy 2025
An end to cheap discounted Australian wine is signalled in a major new document which updates the landmark Strategy 2025.
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Foster’s out of mail-order wine business
Australian beer and wine giant Foster’s Group is selling its wine clubs in Australia, New Zealand and Japan and getting out of the mail-order wine business altogether
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Drought threatens Australia crop
Up to 60% of Australia’s 2008 wine production is under threat from drought.
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Brent Marris resigns from Wither Hills
Brent Marris, managing director and chief winemaker of New Zealand’s Wither Hills winery, has resigned.
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Australian producers continue wine package experimentation
Australian wine producers are developing ever more creative wine packaging in the search for sales.
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Phylloxera threatens 70% of Australia’s Yarra Valley
A newly-discovered outbreak of the vine-killing bug phylloxera is threatening over 70% of Australia’s Yarra Valley vines.
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Wine from bankrupt Heritage to be released
More than a million bottles of wine from the failed Australian investment company Heritage Fine Wines (HFW) are to be released to the market.
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OIV gets ‘New World perspective’ as Australian appointed top job
Australian viticulturalist Peter Hayes has been elected unopposed as President of the International Organisation of the Vine and Wine (OIV).
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France to go 'massive' in China
France is planning an aggressive marketing campaign for China, with ‘massive’ supermarket launches to capitalise on initiatives already in place, French ministers announced at Vinexpo in Hong Kong.
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'Unbreakable' glass launched
An ‘unbreakable’ wine glass made of a new material called Kwarx has been launched at Vinexpo in Hong Kong.
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Adelaide blast kills one, destroys wine store
A massive explosion that ripped through downtown Adelaide and killed one man also destroyed one of the city’s most significant wine establishments.
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Aussies go bananas over fruit flavoured wines
Southcorp, Hardys and other major Australian wine companies are infusing wines with fruit flavours – to universal satisfaction, it seems.
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Halliday wins wine award
Australian wine writer James Halliday has won the 2005 Saltram Australian Wine Communicator Award.
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Gloves off as Halliday, Parker trade blows
Australian wine writer James Halliday has launched a blistering attack on American wine critics Robert Parker and Matt Kramer.
