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Applications Open – Next Crop Queensland 2025 Leadership Program

April 30, 2025
Queensland Wine
Uncategorized

The Next Crop Queensland 2025 program features seven days of in-person leadership development. Through the program, participants will:  Identify key strengths, understand leadership skills and styles and address skills gaps. Develop a strong cohort of regional colleagues and counterparts and have increased opportunity to network to further professional goals. Develop leadership and management skills to strengthen business and region wide sustainability and resilience. Increase existing business skills and capabilities and develop confidence in public speaking, decision-making, negotiation and advocacy. Be…

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40th Annual Queensland Wine Awards Presentation Dinner

October 15, 2024
Queensland Wine
Wine Awards

In its 40th year, the Awards is a celebration of our industry – recognising excellence in wine making and the contributions made by persons and businesses in progressing our industry. The Queensland wine industry is unique in Australia as having the highest proportion of boutique wineries producing the majority of Queensland wine. This means that you are tasting the fruits of small businesses who strive for perfection in their yearly vintages. As a guest, you can enjoy sampling the award…

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South Burnett Vintage Report 2023

June 3, 2023
Queensland Wine
Vintage

It’s an exhilarating feeling as a wine producer to harvest fruit that you have spent the best part of the last 12 months cultivating. The anxiety, worry and nervousness disappears and you look forward to the pleasures about to be created.

Vintage 2023 has been a fantastic outcome for the region’s wine producers and winemakers. When growing winegrapes in the South Burnett you enter into a fraught partnership with Mother Nature.

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Happy Shiraz Day

July 27, 2022
Queensland Wine
International Wine Day, Shiraz Day

Shiraz or Syrah has paved its way in Oz as the most planted variety across most, if not all wine regions here in Australia. With styles ranging from medium body Northern Rhône Syrah styles seen as “Old World”, from cooler climates regions with a style of dark berries, floral bouquet often seen as lean and elegant to the high tannin “New World” bold Shiraz black pepper and spice often associated with the fruit concentrate.

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Emerging Variety Wine Challenge 2022 results

June 12, 2022
Queensland Wine
Results, Wine Events, Wine News

The QWIA President and QWIA Board would like to congratulate all the Award Winners and thank you to all the wineries for supporting this Wine Challenge.  Thank you to our Judges for giving your time and expertise to support this challenge and to the hard-working Stewards for making the day run smoothly.  Thank you to our sponsors for your support of the Queensland Wine Industry Association.  A special thank you to Tafe South Bank for supplying such a fantastic venue…

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Celebrate International Chardonnay Day in the Granite Belt

May 25, 2022
Queensland Wine
Chardonnay Day, Granite Belt Wine, International Wine Day, Reviews, Wine & Food, Wine News

Chardonnay on its own as a grape variety is quite neutral and highly influenced by its terroir and the nurturing of the wine maker. It responds to a far wider range of wine making techniques than most varietals, making it a true expression of the collaboration of nature’s elements and man’s creativity… it’s Art!

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To facilitate the pursuit of excellence in the production of Queensland wines, encourage the promotion of Queensland wines, and to deliver leadership to the Queensland Wine Industry.

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