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Casella Family Brands managing director John Casella at the group’s winery at Yenda in NSW.

This Rich Lister sees a wave of distressed wine sales coming

The MD of Casella Family Brands, owner of Australia’s biggest-selling wine export brand Yellow Tail, says the under $10 per bottle segment is still shrinking.

  • Simon Evans

This Month

Warren Randall, the executive chairman of Randall Wine Group.

Treasury Wines to lift Penfolds prices as China loosens tariffs

The country’s largest wine producers say there has been an immediate increase in demand from importers after Beijing loosened trade restrictions last week.

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  • Simon Evans and Michael Smith

March

Rebuilding wine sales in China to take time: minister

Assistant Trade Minister Tim Ayres welcomed China’s removal of tariffs on Australian wine but said rebuilding the $1.1 billion trade will take time.

  • Tess Ikonomou
Australian wines on display at a Shanghai expo in November in 2020. Exports of wine stopped abruptly after that when Beijing introduced punitive sanctions.

China’s trade coercion tactics on ice as wine tariffs removed

With the end of the tariffs, Australia is being lauded as an example in other sanction-hit countries like Japan, Korea and Taiwan of how to stand up to Beijing’s bullying.

  • Updated
  • Michael Smith
A winery in the Yarra Valley. China will lift restrictions on imports from Australia on Friday.

China removes punishing tariffs on Australian wine trade

Beijing says the restrictions, which had devastated local winemakers, will be removed on Friday, and big producers have applauded the change.

  • Simon Evans and Michael Smith
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Prue & Stephen Henschke - Hill of Grace Vineyard.

Precious old vintages from the Barossa set for release

In Australia’s oldest wine region, well-cellared treasures, from wines to whiskies are being unearthed. Here’s a few to earmark.

  • Max Allen
Balgownie Estate stocks the full range of wine produced at its 17 acres of vineyards in the Yarra Valley and 70 acres in Bendigo, where the operation began back in 1969.

Yarra Valley winery unveils $7m refurb

Victoria’s Balgownie Estate has had a revamp after a major fire in 2020.

  • Gus McCubbing
2020 Dalwhinnie The Eagle Shiraz

This is one of the best wines I’ve tried all year

The latest vintage of Dalwhinnie’s Eagle shiraz has landed – and it’s easily the best young Eagle I can remember tasting.

  • Max Allen
Bruno Brombal, the chairman of  Riverina Winegrape Growers, who supplies De Bortoli Wines.

Wine glut expected to plague growers for at least next two years

Excavators are “booked out for six weeks” near Griffith as grape growers rip out vineyards in the wake of punishing China wine tariffs and a shift in consumer tastes.

  • Simon Evans

From the name to the palate, this wine’s a charm

New owners and a top winemaker take a Clare Valley stalwart to new heights.

  • Max Allen
Warren Randall, executive chairman of Randall Wine Group - owner of Seppeltsfield Estate, Gemtree and Penny’s Hill, in the McLaren Vale wine region.

Treasury Wine set for $100m profit bump

The owner of Seppeltsfield Estate and Gemtree says the company took a $40m hit from Chinese wine tariffs and regaining lost sales could take three years.

  • Simon Evans
Treasury Wines CEO Tim Ford at the Financial Review Business Summit on Monday.

Treasury Wines ‘optimistic’ about proposed removal of Chinese tariffs

The CEO of Treasury Wines, Tim Ford, is “pleased” by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s draft intention to remove tariffs on Australian wines.

  • Simon Evans
The number of own-label wines retailers produce and stock is increasing. Smaller producers worry it is pushing their own wines aside.

Think your wine comes from a boutique winemaker? Think again

An explosion in the number and sophistication of own-brand bottles produced by the largest retailers is creating a war for shelf space.

  • Jemima Whyte, Simon Evans and Carrie LaFrenz
Tim Baker has bought more than $15,000 of wine in the past three years.

‘Investments of passion’: Why I spent $15,000 on wine in three years

Tim Baker was bitten by the wine bug in France.

  • Louis White

February

This booze-free spritz is one of Max Allen’s top summer drinks

Brands are no longer trying to recreate the real thing with less alcohol. The newest no-lo options have flavours all of their own.

  • Max Allen
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Accolade Wines chief executive Robert Foye says the group will be on a much better footing now after the ownership change which has brought a large cut in debt levels.

Accolade Wines to squeeze grape suppliers under new owners

Carlyle Group will relinquish control of the company – which owns Hardy’s, Grant Burge, Croser and Banrock Station – after buying it for $1 billion in 2018.

  • Simon Evans and Carrie LaFrenz

January

Treasury Wines boss Tim Ford purchased Frank Family Vineyards in 2021 for $US315 million.

Treasury Wine’s US division getting weaker: Citi

Foot traffic around the wine maker’s key US vineyards was mixed in December, according to the broker.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
Accolade Wines chief executive Robert Foye has his hands full as Australia’s second-largest wine group attempts to restructure its balance sheet.

Accolade Wines restructure looms but China no golden ticket

Bain Special Situations and Sona Asset Management, two specialists in distressed assets, are poised to take control of the country’s second-largest winemaker.

  • Simon Evans and Carrie LaFrenz

December 2023

Four leaders with four tough challenges in 2024

For Treasury Wines CEO Tim Ford, Qantas boss Vanessa Hudson, Liontown’s Tony Ottaviano and Housing Australia’s Nathan Dal Bon the stakes have rarely been higher.

  • Simon Evans, Peter Ker, Ayesha de Kretser and Nick Lenaghan
To put Australian and French sparkling wines to the test, Max Allen rounded up friends, family and colleagues to taste and compare.

Champagne or sparkling: Max Allen’s taste test results revealed

Our expert takes a bunch of champagnes and a bunch of top Australian sparkling wines, pops the corks and puts them to a blind taste test.

  • Max Allen