“The Public Gets What The Public Wants…” Going Underground, The Jam Supply and demand. It is not a new idea, but it is one that the wine world still struggles with. Until the recent past, distribution would drive demand better[...]
There is a predictable moment in every annual wine program – somewhere between that feature that tells us that is ok to drink rose, and the one that suggests that Aussie Chardonnay is now more Audrey Hepburn than Jane Mansfield[...]
On the eve of the Barossa Wine Show, there can be fewer places more appropriate than Appellation – The Louise to host a thought-provoking review of Australian Shiraz. Presented as one of a subtle suite of changes to this year’s[...]
The awards dinner for the 36th Barossa Wine Show was much like many that had gone before – full of good humour, expectation and ebullient celebration, all washed down with a general sense of community well-being and fortified with a[...]
Spring is a time of celebrating rebirth and revival, a season that is full of new possibilities. Each year the Barossa Grape & Wine Association hosts ‘A Taste of Spring with Eden Valley Riesling’ where the diversity of the region[...]
A glass of wine is enjoyable for us, but the cultivation of the fruits can be quite harmful to the environment. Because of the high demand of wines, grapes are heavily sprayed with pesticides and synthetic fertilizer which destroy the[...]
Thursday 9am On the way to the airport, leaving the winery under blue autumn skies as a red hot air balloon passes overhead. It’s days like this when you wish the Gomersal Road would magically double back on itself and[...]
Harvest is swinging into action, but our Leading Ladies seem to be an unusually relaxed bunch of early-vintage winemakers, with most of them looking forward to events happening after vintage – and enjoying the perfect weather. “Exciting times here at[...]
And so it begins. Another year. Vintage 2012… The end of January saw the start of Vintage 2012 in the Barossa. Hard-working members of our community began Vintage a fortnight ago, with the first of the white fruit being brought[...]
Shavaughn Wells’ interest in wine began with her grandfather Syd Wells, who was managing director of Mildara Wines during the 1950s and 60s, and her first vintage was in her home town of Merbein in 1997. Spells in Coonawarra and[...]
