Wine Australia recently hosted a successful inbound visit by five Japanese on-premise professionals as part of its ongoing efforts to grow the profile of Australian wine in Japan.
The Australian grape and wine sector is being called to rally behind an exciting new message that reframes how domestic consumers connect with Australian wine.
The message is clear, powerful and proudly local: ‘We make a wine for that.’
The Australian grape and wine sector is being invited to take part in Wine Australia’s annual customer engagement stakeholder survey between 2-30 June, to help enhance the services and programs it delivers to empower the success of Australia’s grape and wine businesses.
Australia’s winegrape growers can now access a series of free, practical guides designed to support vineyard management with minimal ongoing intervention and promote long-term ecological practices.
An exciting new cohort has been selected for the Australian grape and wine sector’s peak leadership development program, Future Leaders.
In the lead up to what is anticipated to be a challenging fire season in many regions, Wine Australia has reviewed the latest research findings and evidence-based advice from the AWRI, La Trobe University and other agencies and organisations to develop a web-based ‘quick reference guide’ to support growers and winemakers who are unfortunate enough to be impacted by fire or smoke this season.
A remediation method for smoke-affected wine that maximises the recovery of value from impacted fruit is being validated in the Australian marketplace as part of a 12-month collaborative project between Wine Australia, VAF Memstar and Amea, the New Zealand-based company behind the solution.
Wine Australia and the AWRI have embarked on a series of research projects that focus on taking research outcomes through to impact in grapegrowing and winemaking businesses. These ‘Impact Projects’ are the result of a substantial rethink on how projects are structured and, more importantly, how their direction and focus is informed to best serve the wine sector. In the following Q&A, Wine Australia’s new Research Impact Manager Josh Hixson explains the benefits of focussing investment towards research impact.
Emerging leaders of Australia’s wine sector from Margaret River and McLaren Vale have graduated from the latest Next Crop program, the regional platform to introduce leadership, business and management skills to build capacity within wine regions.
Phylloxera, crown gall, scale and grapevine viruses are the focus of four new pest and disease research projects now under way with funding by Wine Australia and various research partners.
Growers don’t have to wait for offer prices to get a good indication of the direction that prices are likely to move. The Wine Australia Grape Price Indicators Dashboard is a source of independent, free, trustworthy and relevant information
In the 12 months ended March 2025, Australian wine exports increased by 41 per cent in value to $2.64 billion and by 6 per cent in volume to 647 million litres, according to Wine Australia’s Export Report released today. The increase is mainly due to the elevated level of premium wine shipments to mainland China, after tariffs on Australian bottled wine were removed at the end of March 2024.
This market bulletin examines the key insights from the report that was funded by Wine Australia and produced in collaboration with Wine Direct, Enolytics and Georgia Rasmussen Consulting.
Total sales of Australian wine exceeded production for the second year in a row, following successive small vintages, according to the Australian Wine Production, Sales and Inventory Report 2024 released today by Wine Australia.
Consumer research from market research company Growth Scope, based on an analysis of the consumption occasion, provides a new lens for understanding the drivers of wine consumption in Australia. This market bulletin looks at how understanding the consumption occasion can help answer the question: why do people drink wine?