China’s wine imports in the first six months of the year slid due to Covid-19, with Chile seeing the sharpest decline among all countries of origins. Read More
Australia
China's thirst for wine has led to a global vineyard purchasing spree. Here, we have mapped out well-heeled Chinese buyers' global acquisitions. Read More
After 143 years of family management that extends to the 6th generation, the fate of Australia's historic winery McWilliam's Wines might be in the hands of a private equity firm, writes Rob Geddes MW. Read More
Australia's biggest wine company, Treasury Wine Estates, has issued a profit warning as much as 20% for its core earnings for fiscal year 2020 and withheld guidance for 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
Australia made a point in its Vision 2050 report to reduce its heavy reliance on China, and cross-border travel ban between China and Hong Kong will take its toll on the grey market wine trading. Read More
Acclaimed Australian wine critic, James Halliday, is putting his personal collection of 250 bottles of the rarefied Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) up for sale, which will make the online auction "the biggest of its kind in Australian history", according to auction house Langton's. Read More
Australian wine exports in the first four months of the year have been dented by the coronavirus pandemic, with China seeing the sharpest decline, and the future of wine trading between the two countries dogged by fears of escalating political tensions. Read More
Robert Foye has been promoted as CEO of Australia’s second largest wine group, Accolade Wines, less than three months after joining the wine group as … Read More
The Australian Broadcast Commission (ABC) report the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Wine Australia have discovered an import mix-up where Gros Manseng … Read More
Rob Geddes MW, one of the few people who obtained the highly coveted Master of Wine title in Australia, is joining Vino Joy News, expanding … Read More