Wine Australia has launched a free online self-paced course to help Australian wineries welcome back international travellers and build a profitable tourism trade.
Australian wine exports declined by 10 per cent in volume to 625 million litres and 19 per cent in value to $2.08 billion in the year ended 30 June 2022, according to Wine Australia’s latest Export Report released today.
Wine Australia has announced a new three-year $2.2 million regionally-based program that will support winegrape growers to plant cover crops, enhance soil health and increase functional biodiversity in vineyards around the country.
The Australian grape and wine community will have a roadmap to achieve net zero carbon emissions across the sector through a new investment announced by Wine Australia.
The 2022 Australian winegrape crush is estimated1 to be 1.73 million tonnes, 2 per cent below the 10-year average and 13.5 per cent below the 2021 record crush of 2.01 million tonnes, according to the National Vintage Report 2022 released today by Wine Australia.
Episode four of Reading Between the Vines is a conversation with Hans Loder from Penley Estate in Coonawarra about what he has found through his Nuffield Scholarship about maximising the benefits from agtech for viticulture.
Do amino acids play a role in the flavour of red wine? Indeed they do, with new research showing they have a surprisingly strong influence on the sensory properties of red wine – building sweetness and viscosity, and increasing the flavour intensity associated with full-bodied wines.
One of the biggest frustrations for growers after the devastating 2019 Cudlee Creek bushfire in the Adelaide Hills was not knowing exactly what action to take – and when.
Two years down the track, growers now have a firmer picture of what action to take in the hours, days and months following a bushfire.
To help overcome some of the challenge of variability, De Bortoli's Rob Sutherland and his technical assistant Emma Taylor started trialling the Bitwise Agronomy Greenview camera system.
Like many vineyards around the world, variability is a challenge for Torbreck Vintners. Torbreck has recently been using a solution from Swan Systems; a configurable water and nutrient management software solution that helps grape growers make data-driven decisions.
Today’s Market Bulletin will summarise the economic conditions in the top markets for Australian wine: Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, which together account for 80 per cent of the volume of Australian wine sold. It will then look at past and current data to see if any insights can be gained about how this environment is likely to affect wine consumption
To assist Australian wineries in assessing market opportunities, Wine Australia has analysed IWSR wine sales data for the top 50 wine markets to determine the size of the opportunity for both the commercial/value and premium wine segments.
Canada is the 12th largest wine market in the world and Australia’s third largest export market, in both volume and value. The wine market has experienced significant change over the past three years, as reported in Wine Australia’s newly released Market Update: Canada report.
The United States (US) is the world’s biggest wine market. According to the IWSR, still wine sales for the US in 2021 totaled 314 million cases, with a value of US$34 billion.
In the 2021–22 financial year, Australian wine exports declined by 10 per cent in volume to 625 million litres and the average value fell by 10 per cent to $3.33 per litre FOB, leading to a 19 per cent decline in value to $2.08 billion, according to Wine Australia’s latest Export Report.