One of the biggest international promotions of Riesling starts today at the Albert Hall in Canberra, Australia. The Riesling challenge has attracted 502 entries from 228 wineries from across nine Riesling-producing countries. Judges from China, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia will rate the wines by region, country, and the world over three days, with […]
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European wine scientists are set to share their expertise with the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) in Adelaide as part of a major EU funded exchange program. A consortium of 13 members of the Oenoviti International network of grape and wine research organizations, including the AWRI, has received €874,000 in funding to allow 39 wine
The South Australian wine region of Barossa became the latest signatory of the Joint Declaration to Protect Wine Place & Origin, a global movement to ensure wine place names are protected and not abused or miscommunicated to consumers. The coalition welcomed Barossa on Friday at a meeting in San Francisco, where members discussed how to
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On September 1 Australia joins the global movement to support robust truth-in-labelling laws that protect consumers by requiring that wine growing place names are reserved exclusively for the regions where the wines come from. Any bubbly produced in Australia after September 1 can no longer be labeled as “Champagne”, and will have to be called
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