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• Wine sales see a spirited increase during holiday season

  30-11-2016 01:35
  This time of the year, alcohol sales see an increase. Beer, wine, and liquor sales in the United States have grown 11.7 percent from 2011 to 2016, according to market research firm Ibisworld. Additionally, sales for alcohol are higher at the end of the year than any other time. Local wineries and vineyards benefit from this increase in sales around the holiday time. Babak Bakhtiar, Director of Marketing at CrossKeys Vineyards, says they are witnessing an increase in sales overall, as well as hol
  
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• Two days left to enter Fiano tasting

  30-11-2016 01:35
  Australian wine producers have until close of business this Friday (2 December) to register their interest in an upcoming tasting of Fiano being organised by the Wine & Viticulture Journal.
  The tasting has been prompted by the rapid rise in the number of Australian wineries producing Fiano since the publication last tasted the varietal nearly five years when there was just a handful. Today, the Journal’s sister publication, the Wine Industry Directory, lists just over 70 wineries crush
  
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• New Zealand plans for Vintage 2017 after Earthquake

  30-11-2016 01:35
  The New Zealand wine industry is busy planning for the up-coming vintage after taking into account the impact of the recent Kaikoura earthquake. “We have completed our survey of the impact of the earthquake on our members” said Philip Gregan, CEO of New Zealand Winegrowers. “It is clear there was some wine loss as a result of the earthquake but it amounts to only a little over 2% of Marlborough’s total production. While this is frustrating, this is not a major concern as
  
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• How this WA winery is using drones and geology

  30-11-2016 01:35
  When farmers choose their paddocks, they look for good soil. When winemakers choose their ground, they look for 'terroir' - French term describing the site's soil, climate and topography which can subtly or even substantially influence the way grapes grow and what they taste like when made into wine. Back in 1922, soil quality was the prime concern for a pioneering WA settler named George John Alexander Swinney when he went to the Frankland River region in the Great Southern to choose a site for
  
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• Government helps wine industry fix damage from quake

  30-11-2016 01:35
  Officials from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and the Ministry for Primary Industries are working with New Zealand Winegrowers to resolve quake damage to wine storage tanks in the Marlborough region that is threatening the 2017 harvest. An estimated 20 percent of wine storage tanks in the Marlborough region, the country's largest wine producing area, have been damaged by the impact of the recent Kaikoura earthquake. There is the potential that a lack of storage will affect t
  
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• Doc Adams cellar door in McLaren Vale unveiled

  30-11-2016 01:35
  Adams Wines is proud to announce the official opening of their Cellar Door. A destination that is set to be iconic in the McLaren Vale wine region, as a facility to accommodate tastings, a family friendly atmosphere set amongst McLaren Vale vines and beautiful Australian bushland. The Cellar Door will be officially opened on Monday 28th of November. Proceedings to be held at the Cellar Door premises, 276 California Road, Tatachilla SA 5171 from 1.30pm onwards. Adam Jacobs, Managing Director, com
  
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• Culture Club coming to Seppeltsfield

  30-11-2016 01:35
  1980's iconic pop group Culture Club have confirmed a concert at Seppeltsfield in December, as part of a national Encore Tour announced last week. The group, who is led by one of the greatest pop phenomena of all time, Boy George, will hit the Barossa for one night only on Friday 9th December. Seppeltsfield will be Culture Club’s only performance in South Australia, with fellow 80’s bands 1927, Pseudo Echo and Real Life joining as supports. Culture Club has enjoyed a return to fame i
  
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