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+ Cluster spans entire production chain
+ World first set to expand wine markets
+ Grower co-op turns over $5m since 2006
+ World's best earn honours at VINITECH
+ Industry wants tax inequities gone
+ Federal exit offer dubbed 'cruel hoax'
+ Premiums prosper despite recession
+ NZ producer helps to boost bird life
+ Former employees deliver new harvester

Cluster spans entire production chain

COLLABORATIVE research from vineyard to palate is the theory behind the new Wine Innovation Cluster – an alliance of five of Australia's leading grape and wine research agencies. GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

World first set to expand wine markets

ALL winemakers incorporate characteristics such as flavour, mouthfeel and aroma in their wines to capture consumers, with varying success, but science may soon make this less difficult. GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

Grower co-op turns over $5m since 2006

IN 2006, winegrape growers frustrated by endless setbacks like low prices, cancelled supply contracts, grapes left on the vine and other difficulties formed Vintage Traders Australia to sell their fru GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

World's best earn honours at VINITECH

EXCITING advances in technology, with a focus on improving quality and reducing impact on the environment, were recognised at last month's 2008 VINITECH Innovation Awards in Bordeaux, France. GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

Industry wants tax inequities gone

THE basic message to the Federal Government by the Australian wine industry in its submissions on how the tax system should be changed is that inequities need to be removed. GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

Federal exit offer dubbed 'cruel hoax'

THE conditions governing the payment of the $150,000 exit grant offered by the Federal Government to irrigators wanting to leave their industries are so demanding that the sincerity of the measure is GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

Premiums prosper despite recession

DESPITE the continuing global financial turmoil and the economic recession in the United Kingdom, some distributors of Australian wines cannot keep up with demand. They are having no trouble selling t GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

NZ producer helps to boost bird life

IT would be fair to say that most grapegrowers have an intrinsic, almost Hitchcock-esque hatred of birds. GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

Former employees deliver new harvester

AN Australian designed and built tractor-trailer mechanical grape harvester is back in production and on the market. GrapeGrowers & Vignerons+

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