Media Release The new NSW Wine Festival programme (formerly NSW Wine Week) is on track to be a huge success with the opening weekend’s festivities – Sydney Cellar Door – attracting the biggest attendance ever. The number of wine and food lovers converging on Sydney’s Hyde Park South this Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th February […]
photos: Roderick Eime Just a small section of the Saturday crowd. Audrey Wilkinson brand manager, Georgia Lea, all excited about the winery’s 2009 Tempranillo Graeme & Ann Shaw kept busy keeping glasses full with their multi-award winning wines. Graeme was particularly enthusiastic about his new Estate Riscato, a lower alcohol wine made from Semillon, Riesling […]
More and more the people of New South Wales are discovering the joys of their home-state wine, with seven out of ten bottles of wine produced in New South Wales sold in New South Wales, according to figures newly released from Nielsen. Sales of NSW bottled wine in NSW retail outlets are experiencing continued year […]
Media Release A Tantalising Line-Up at Sydney Cellar Door! NSW Wine Festival ~ February 26 – March 31, 2011 Top New South Wales wines, hip Australian musos and the coolest local restaurateurs and regional food producers see this year’s jam-packed Sydney Cellar Door set to tantalise your tastebuds, thrill your ears and sooth your soul. […]
Media release It is time to get your surfboards waxed, sunscreen packed and wine glasses polished as the New Generation Hunter Valley winemakers are getting ready to embark on an epic two-week, east coast Austalia road trip they’re calling “Not Your Usual Caravan of Courage”. With six top Hunter Valley winemakers, 10 locations, 20 events […]
Media Release 2011 set for Wine & Food Heaven! NSW Wine Festival ~ Feb 26 – March 31, 2011 NSW wines are set to star at the annual NSW Wine Festival launching February 26, 2011. Every year New South Wales toasts its most talented winemakers and award-winning wines with a collection of exciting public tastings […]
Media Release … AND CELEBRATE THE AUSTRALIAN SPIRIT Did you know that Rum could actually be described as one of our national drinks, being used as the first unofficial currency of the early Australia colonies back in NSW in 1793? It also played a key role in our pioneering spirit and military history with the […]
Media release It’s wine show season, and one show that always encourages some unusual and inspiring entries is the Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show (AAVWS) …and one such lesser known variety ready to now be fully discovered by the Australian consumer is Chambourcin. A French-American hybrid, Chambourcin’s actual parentage is unknown after it was lost […]
The Coming of AgeInternational Winemaker of the Yearnow 2010 NSW Wine of the Year! 2010 NSW Wine Awards Gala Presentation Dinner, Guillaume at Bennelong, Sydney Last year, McGuigan, one of New South Wales’ (and Australia’s) icon wine families brought the world’s gaze back to our State’s wines claiming in London the title of both the […]
Media Release The NSW Wine Awards are once again upon us as the annual search for the 2010 NSW Wine of the Year begins with judging taking place on September 20 and 21 prior to the awards program and presentation dinner 18 – 21 October 2010 (see program below). For NSW winemakers, the NSW Wine […]