WBM May / June 2021

In the May / June 2021 issue of Wine Business Magazine:

Slam dunks and the wine industry

Change is the only constant. Part of the challenge in the wine business is to value thinking about the future as much as we value activity and busyness in the present.

An hour with John Casella

John Casella is at the helm of a global winemaking powerhouse. What’s the view like up there and how does he keep his feet on the ground?

The workshop: The feel-good fellowship

A growing number of wine drinkers don’t just want something that tastes good, they want something that’s good for them and good for the planet.

Market analysis

‘The three destinations – America, Canada and the UK – have a combined market size of more than 480 million cases and Australian in 2019 held just under a 10 percent share’. Peter Bailey from Wine Australia reports.

Vintage 2021: We’ll have that every year, please

You never get a perfect vintage – but 2021 is the next best thing with winemakers very happy with the quality and the quantity.

Vintage with a difference

With the Barossa heralded as one of the most famous wine regions in the world, it was almost inevitable that wine studies would be introduced in 1993 at Faith Lutheran College.

The making of Teusner Wines

Growing up on a sheep farm, Kym Tuesner had an unconstrained view of how wine should be made – and that turned out to be the making of him and his wine business. \

Keep typing

Ed provides a review on Robbie Brechin’s book Blood on the Typewriter. ‘What a book. What a life. Whitey is not perfect, but he is real’.

No place like home

Blending wine in a quarantine hotel room and running a tasting room afar is all part of a day’s work for this jet setting wine duo.

Trade Reviews

Mike Bennie and Tyson Stelzer review and score 100 Australian wines: including wines from Mount Mary, Ashton Hills Vineyard, Whistling Eagle Vineyard and more.