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• World’s best sommeliers to visit Australia

  02-12-2016 00:44
  Wine Australia will invite the best sommeliers in the world to discover Australia’s incredible wine offering as part of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2017, being held in Melbourne in April. The World’s 50 Best Restaurants have partnered with Tourism Australia to bring the renowned event to Australian shores, where world-leading chefs, restaurateurs, media and influencers will gather to celebrate the very best in global gastronomy. The overall event program and awards will sho
  
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• WA winemakers celebrate wine equalisation tax win

  02-12-2016 00:44
  WA winegrowers are celebrating after pressuring the Federal Government into backing away from a divisive Budget measure, winning a rewrite of tax changes that threatened to cripple the State’s fine wine industry. The Coalition will dump plans to reduce the $500,000 tax rebate cap on the wine equalisation tax to $290,000. The measure was announced in the May Budget as part of a $250 million savings measure. The Government will reduce the rebate cap to $350,000 and grant “top-ups&rdquo
  
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• Pinot Noir NZ announces impressive culinary programme

  02-12-2016 00:44
  With just 60 days until New Zealand’s most significant wine event - Pinot Noir NZ 2017, the lid has been lifted on an all-star line-up of kiwi chefs putting food on the table alongside world class New Zealand wines. Al Brown, Graham Brown and Josh Emett will join Pinot Noir NZ’s culinary director - Wellington food legend Ruth Pretty MNZM in delivering a three day exposé on the local food scene. Al Brown - the restaurateur behind Auckland eateries Depot and Federal Delicatessen
  
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• Heritage listed Brisbane icon bought back to life

  02-12-2016 00:44
  111 Constance St Fortitude Valley has been a fine wine destination for many years, and now, the 112 year old Defiance Flour Mill building is home to Baedeker. For travel buffs, the name Karl Baedeker is synonymous with the romance of globetrotting, as a travel author before his time. His famous mid 1800’s guides are highly collectable. The venture, a partnership between Grape Therapy’s Darren Davis & Wine ‘n Dine ‘m Catering’s Craig Fox, brings together the indu
  
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• China reports strong imported alcohol growth

  02-12-2016 00:44
  China’s total alcoholic beverage imports including wines, beers and spirits registered strong growth in both volume and value terms in the first 10 months of the year, according to the latest figures released by China Association for Imports and Export of Wine & Spirits. From January to October, the country imported over 1.8 billion litres of alcoholic beverages, worth about US$3.5 billion, an increase of 35.07% in volume and 13.89% increase in value over the same period last year. Its
  
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• Australia’s answer to ‘sauvalanche’

  02-12-2016 00:44
  Sauvignon blanc is among Australia’s most popular whites but the market has been dominated by New Zealand labels in a phenomenon labelled the “Marlborough tsunami” by wine writer James Halliday. “It’s called the ‘sauvalanche’ and it’s been happening for the past eight years,” Howard Park Wines director Natalie Burch said. “It’s not something we could replicate, so producers like ourselves who have sauvignon blanc planted have look
  
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• Accolade holds roadshow for potential investors

  02-12-2016 00:44
  Accolade Wines is holding a roadshow for potential investors across Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong next week as it gears up for its IPO listing next year. A spokesman for the wine giant’s parent company this morning confirmed to db a report in the Australian Financial Review that it was holding a “non-deal” roadshow, which the AFR said would give it greater visibility and “make the company more attractive to potential investors” ahead of its listing. The Roads
  
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• 20% of wine storage tanks in Marlborough damaged by quake

  02-12-2016 00:44
  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. New Zealand Winegrowers has just completed a survey of the earthquake impact on its members and chief executive Philip Gregan said the wine loss experienced accounts for only a little over 2 percent of Marlborough’s total annual production. “While this is frustrating, this is not a major concern as
  
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