AUSTRALIAN winemakers might have won over Chinese drinkers with the flavour of their product, but they need to work on the snob factor. China is Australias fastest-growing wine market, with exports growing 46 per cent by value over the 12 months to
MODERATE drinkers actually live longer than teetotalers, lending more weight to the argument that imbibing does improve health, according to findings published today. Researchers from the University of Texas, Austin found that people who completely
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webbers wine collection has sold for US$5.6m (£3.5m) at an auction in Hong Kong. Among the 746 lots, the most expensive case of wine was a Chateau Petrus 1982, 12 bottles going for $77,564 (£48,500).
FOSTERS wine chief recently raided Coles liquor outlets, buying as much Penfolds 389 as he could as part of its campaign to protect his brands from retailer discounts.
WHEN Cape Mentelle's gun winemaker, Robert Mann, pondered which wine he would make to celebrate the five-star Margaret River winery's 40th anniversary, there were few surprises when he settled on a Bordeaux-style red blend.
DOUG Crittenden gently eases the cork from a bottle of 1964 Barossa cabernet sauvignon. `This is one of ours,` he says as he slowly pours the russet old wine into a decanter. `We bought this in bulk from Saltram. Peter Lehmann was the winemaker back
Archaeologists say they have found the worlds oldest known winery in a cave in Armenia, indicating that humans were distilling grapes during the Copper Age, more than 6,000 years ago.
After extensive and meticulous work which will probably always be ongoing, researchers at the University of Auckland have concluded their country`s iconic Sauvignon blanc is best stored chilled, at around 5 degrees. Cold storage can triple the shelf-
Family-owned vignerons plan to restore the industrys faded fortunes It is tempting to portray the Australian wine industry as a vast collection of wineries all piled on a huge seesaw, with 20 very large companies churning out 75 per cent of the nati
People who are overweight have a greater sense of smell for food, a study has found. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth say their early findings may go towards explaining why some people struggle to stay slim.
AN amateur wine group paid a record €57,000 ($76,000) for a 237-year-old bottle of wine from France`s eastern Jura region at a local wine festival auction.
IN the first nine months of last year, the BRL Hardy wine assets acquired by Constellation reported an operating profit of $2.5 million. Back in 2002, the net profit was $72.2m. Constellations Robert Sands poor timing balanced the brilliant timing
Ian Henderson says the unusual micro-climate on his Granite Belt vineyard at Ballandean means his grapes can be picked in the dead of winter, several months after the last fruit in the country has been harvested.
Wine experts have popped the corks of two bottles of champagne salvaged from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where they had lain in a sunken ship for nearly 200 years. On stage in front of
Can a wine really have notes of chocolate, truffle and violets? Can wines be feminine, pretentious or cheeky? Can wines express anything? Or, more philosophically, are the senses of taste and smell as structured as sight?
The Australian understands the groups vice-president, Ge Junjie, who has been visiting Australia this week, has been urging Fosters to split its wine division into separate assets, rather than demerge the unit to shareholders in a newly listed vehicl
Barossa grape grower Leo Pech is urging removal of tax breaks for new vineyards, saying it is ridiculous to encourage development during a wine glut. Growers in the Clare and Barossa Valleys have been told they need to pull out at least 17 per cent
