Taylors Wines, one of Australia’s leading, most awarded, family-owned wine companies, is seeking a highly skilled, entrepreneurial and enthusiastically obsessive individual to add to its Sydney-based marketing team. Taylors’ esteemed winery and vineyard is located in South Australia’s beautiful Clare Valley, with its head office in the newly renovated Woolstores offices in Sydney. Since establishing its winery three generations ago, the Taylor family’s unique blend of ‘old world’ estate philosophy, ‘new world’ winemaking innovation and zealous attention to detail has seen ...

d’Arenberg has unveiled designs of what is set to be the most innovative cellar door to have ever been built. Construction of the multi-million investment is well underway and is roughly expected to be completed by the end of 2016. The d’Arenberg Cube is a five storey multi-function building, with the top two stories turned askew, making it appear as if it were floating among vines in the family’s McLaren Vale homestead. ...

Treasury Wine Estates is midway through implementing a new distribution model under which customers will no longer be able to order wines directly from the company. Orders will now be fulfilled through wholesalers, which a company spokesperson told drinks bulletin is “part of a broader strategy to continually drive improvements in business performance”. “We can confirm that this new model will not impact the level of service our sales team ...

Retail Sales and Events Manager at City Wine Shop Melbourne, Adam Cotterell, has been named Dux of the 2015 Len Evans Tutorial. As Dux of the course, Adam will now be guaranteed judging positions at two of Australia’s most premier wine shows, the Sydney Royal Wine Show and the National Wine Show in Canberra. Adam will be flown business class to London and then onto Europe with invitations to the greatest wine houses. The Len ...

UK wine writer for The Sunday Express and publisher of leading wine website WineAnorak.com, Jamie Goode, landed in Australia this week to embark on a tour of Australia’s wine industry. During his ten day stay, which began on Thursday (26 November), Goode will visit Sydney’s Rootstock festival as well as producers in the south of Australia. Goode’s trip is being sponsored by Wine Australia, who is hoping that the first-hand tour will ...

De Bortoli Wines has purchased the Lutasatia Park Vineyard at Woori Yallock in the Yarra Valley from the Shelmerdine family. The 18 hectare premium, mature vineyard will be handed over to De Bortoli after the 2016 harvest. Lusatia Park is one of the most well known independent single vineyards in the Yarra Valley. The majority of the vineyard was planted in 1985 and currently sells fruit to a number of premium ...

The Government of Western Australia has extended trading hours in the state. The reforms came into effect last weekend and allow hotels, taverns and small bars to trade until midnight on both Saturday and Sunday and nightclubs through to 2am on the following Monday morning. The WA Government hopes the changes, which form part of the 2015 Red Tape Reduction Report Card, will help to increase revenue and tourism for businesses. “The changes recognise modern community expectations and ...

Jo Andrew has been appointed Independent Chair of Wine Grape Growers Australia (WGGA) today. Mr. Brian Walsh, Chair of Wine Australia welcomed the appointment, saying: “We look forward to working closely with Ms. Andrew to help achieve our goal of a prosperous Australian grape and wine community.” Ms. Andrews joins the sector at a time of growing wine exports. In a sign of much needed improvement in profitability for Australian ...

Calabria Family Wines has released its long-awaited, most premium red wine, The Iconic Grand Reserve Barossa Valley Shiraz 2012. Made from 100-year-old shiraz vines in the Barossa Valley, The Iconic captures Australian fruit at its very best in the bottle. It is therefore no surprise then that the new release also sits as Calabria’s most expensive wine. Despite the $175 RRP however, The Iconic is a wine seriously worth stocking. Not only has Head ...

A former executive of chemicals company Orica and Qantas Airways has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Treasury Wine Estates. Current CFO Tony Reeves has decided to transition out of his role after several successful years with the company, TWE announced on Thursday. His last day will be January 31, 2016. Noel Meehan, who most recently was Orica CFO - a position he held for more than eight years - ...