University of Adelaide PhD candidate Andrew O’Brien has been awarded Wine Australia’s Dr Tony Jordan OAM Award for 2025 to support his studies into the impact of novel cover crops on the aroma and flavour of wine.
The Australian Food and Wine Collaboration Group is headed to Tokyo in April as part of an ongoing effort to improve bilateral trade relations and increase export opportunities for Australia’s premium wine and food producers.
A feasibility study is underway in South Australia to determine if collection points in the state’s wine regions could be a simple, sustainable and cost-effective way to help vineyard owners manage the disposal of CCA-treated trellis posts.
Across Australian vineyards, it is estimated there are around 70 million timber trellis posts treated with CCA — a timber preservative containing copper, chromium and arsenic that protects it from fungal and insect attack. More than half of these are in South Australia, and each year, between 700,000 to 1.8 million CCA posts need to be disposed of across the state due to breakage, vineyard redevelopment or removal.
Emerging leaders in the Australian wine sector will have new opportunities to develop their skills, with Coonawarra Grape and Wine, Barossa Australia, Wine Victoria and the Queensland Wine Industry Association selected to deliver the Next Crop program in 2025.
For the first time, Next Crop will be offered in the Coonawarra wine region and Queensland. It is also returning to the Barossa, while Victoria’s program will focus on the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and Gippsland.
As the Australian wine sector moves towards its emissions reduction targets, six innovative packaging solutions for premium wine have been awarded Federal Government grants to test their feasibility.
The grants have been issued as part of the Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) – Renewables and Low Emissions Round, managed by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. BRII provides funding to startups and SMEs to develop innovative solutions for government policy and service delivery challenges.
Alternative packaging for premium Australian wine was among three challenges of the Renewables and Low Emissions Round.
Wine Australia congratulates James Halliday on receiving the prestigious International Wine Challenge (IWC) Lifetime Achievement Award, announced on Tuesday evening at a ceremony held in London.
A summary of the current alcohol statement information for 33 plus countries that Wine Australia publishes Export Market Guides for.
A significant number of additives and processing aids commonly used in winemaking are a step closer to being authorised for use in wine destined for the Japanese market. Our latest update provides further details on the changes and on recent updates to our Export Market Guides for Russia and the European Union.
We have previously alerted exporters to new chemical analysis requirements in order to send wine to Thailand and Brazil. The new certification requirements are now in force and there have been some important developments since our last update.
Applications are open for the international award for excellence in sustainable winegrowing – the BRIT Award.
This market bulletin looks at whether the reduction in global supply is likely to lead to improved market conditions – and higher prices – for wine and winegrapes in Australia.
This market bulletin provides an update on the performance of the no and low alcohol wine categories globally, highlighting markets that have been growing.
Australian wine exports exceed $2.5 billion in 2024, with strong return to mainland China offsetting declines in other key markets, according to Wine Australia’s Export Report released today.
Sparkling wine has been one of the stand-out wine categories over the past two decades around the globe. This bulletin will provide some insights into the sparkling wine category, covering the biggest sparkling wine producing countries, where the biggest and fastest growing markets are, and examining the key trends in the domestic market.
At the Wine Industry Update 2024, Wine Australia’s Manager, Market Insights Peter Bailey provided a state of the wine market update.
This market bulletin provides detail from the presentation, reviewing the major trends in the global wine market and how these are impacting Australia’s supply and demand situation. It then looks forward, examining where the opportunities for Australian wine to rebound may be in the future.