WBM November / December 2021

In the November / December 2021 issue of Wine Business Magazine:

The new curriculum

Today’s curriculum is different. We can’t just keep studying the same things we did three or five years ago. David LeMire MW reports.

An hour with Philip Shaw

Philip Shaw once worked for one of the biggest wineries in the world. Now his pet love is Hoosegg – one of the smallest.

The land of hope

Leinert vineyard is part of Artisans of Barossa, which has just opened a cool new space in Tanunda. Howard Duncan talks to grape grower John Leinert about the trials and tribulations of growing grapes in the Valley – and about the need to keep up.

What is wine?

We are entering a different era in the marketing of what we traditionally think of as wine. Larry Lockshin reports.

Wolf Blass owes me $950,000

Nick Glaetzer had heard all the stories about the Jimmy Watson being worth a million dollars. He’s here to tell you it’s not quite true

It’s still cabernet, Ol’Chum

Fashion has not been kind to traditional Cabernet Sauvignon. But a lot of winemakers are starting to put a different spin on things.

Effervescence Tasmania

Dan Traucki’s notes from a small island – Tasmania – whose sparkling wine production is bubbling along nicely.

Vintage Ponting

Ricky Ponting was one of the greatest cricketers of all time. Now he wants to be the best he can be at wine, with his Ponting brand already getting some handy runs on the board.

And it was all yellow

Twenty years ago John Casella thought the wine world needed something different. We was right, and how Yellow Tail is a 13.5 million-case brand.

Trade Reviews

Mike Bennie and Tyson Stelzer review and score 100 Australian wines: including wines from Howard Park, Penley Estate, Tamar Ridge and more.