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After 32 years of teaching grapegrowing to America's future winemakers and breeding disease-resistant vines, Andy Walker is retiring.

The evolution of Australian wine consumer habits in the year of the COVID-19 pandemic March 10th, 2021 Researchers from the Adelaide Business School and Ehrenberg-Bass Institute at the University of South Australia conducted a second wave of data collection on the habits of Australian wine consumers following the first set of results presented in the August 2020 issue of the Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker magazine. The researchers share the following findings from this second wave of data, with the full results to be published in Autumn issue of the Wine & Viticulture Journa...

Monday, January 25, 2021 What are the Australian and Spanish grape-growers doing? Here then is the dilemma which will face Bordeaux châteaux in the next 20 to 50 years. Might they move to a cooler region and plant their present famous varieties, Cabernets Sauvignon and Franc and Merlot, or, perhaps stay put in Bordeaux and grow more heat-tolerant varieties such as Syrah and Grenache?The latter option is being actively pursued in several parts of the world, notably Australia, where the climate is now notably drier and hotter than it was when I grew up there, last century.* Robinson continues:...

Latest issue of the Wine & Viticulture Journal out this week December 21st, 2020 Wine & Viticulture Journal will be released this Wednesday. With the 2021 vintage imminent, this issue has a particular focus on fermentation, beginning with Erika Szymanski’s look at recent research into how microbes in mixed microbial fermentations compete with each other and outcompete undesirables. Diluting juice with water is now possible following changes to the Australian and New Zealand Food Standards legislation. This has meant winemakers now have the option of adding water to ferments to reduce alcoho...