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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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International Tannat Day with Tony Hassall of Just Red Wines!

April 14, 2022
Queensland Wine
International Wine Day, Tannat Day

Let’s celebrate International Tannat Day with renowned producer of Tannat in the Granite Belt and member of QWIA, Tony Hassall of Just Red Wines! Tony, his wife Julia and son Michael first planted Tannat in 2010 at their vineyard in Ballandean, with the first vintage in 2014. Tony was a Wine Industry Development Officer for the Department of Primary Industries and part of his role was to research grape varieties. In doing so he discovered that the French red grape…

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