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Wine Australia’s first comprehensive stakeholder survey has been launched to more than 8000 people in the Australian grape and wine community.

The Australian winegrape crush for 2019 is estimated to be 1.73 million tonnes, just one per cent below the 10-year average, according to the National Vintage Report 2019 released today by Wine Australia.

Following a request from Wine Australia, the Department of Agriculture has agreed to establish a levy payer register for the Australian grape and wine sector.

Eligible wine producers, with cellar doors attracting visitors to wine regions, may now apply for a Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grant (Cellar Door Grants) of up to $100,000 if they’ve made rebatable sales in excess of $1.207 million in the 2018‑19 year.

Wine Australia will invest a record $79 million on behalf of the grape and wine sector in 2019–20, investing in research, development and extension (RD&E), market development and export regulation according to its Annual Operational Plan 2019–20 (AOP) released this week.

In the year ended June 2019, Australian wine exports increased 4 per cent in value free on board (FOB) to $2.86 billion and decreased in volume 6 per cent to 801 million litres (89 million 9-litre case equivalents).

The Australian winegrape crush for 2019 is estimated to be 1.73 million tonnes, just one per cent below the 10-year average, according to the National Vintage Report 2019 released today by Wine Australia.

The term ‘BRIC’ was originally coined in 2001 by Jim O'Neill (Goldman Sachs) as an acronym for the four rapidly developing countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which symbolised the shift in global economic power away from the developed G7 economies.

Cabernet Sauvignon is the world’s most widely planted grape variety. Australia is home to what are believed to be among the oldest productive Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the world, located in the northern Barossa Valley (planted in 1886).

How do you find and measure all of the vineyards in Australia? It is quite a challenge, as Australia covers 769 million hectares, of which approximately 2 in every 10,000 hectares are vineyard. A project funded by Wine Australia has risen to this challenge.