Future events
Winemakers’ Trial Forum
Each year winemakers regularly experiment with different techniques in the vineyard and winery. DAFWA is hosting an upcoming event where winemakers can taste other winemakers’ trial wines produced from various experiments focused on improving wine quality and production efficiencies. This event aims to further the collaborative nature of the WA wine industry by bringing winemakers together to share their practical experiences with a number of different viticultural and winemaking techniques.
When: 10.00 – 12.00pm Thursday 30 June 2016
Where: W1 Sensory Laboratory, Margaret River Education Campus, 272 Bussell Hwy, Margaret River
Cost: Free to WA winemakers
RSVP: All available spots at the tasting have been reserved.
Email richard.fennessy@agric.wa.gov.au for more information.
ACCC public forums in Western Australia - horticulture and viticulture
The purpose of the workshop is to enable the ACCC to speak with people in the horticulture and viticulture industries about the key competition and fair trading issues that affect them.
This is an important step in increasing the ACCC's understanding of the industries. The ACCC will also provide information to attendees about its functions, including the protections provided by the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
Where: Bunbury Trotting Club Donaldson Park, Milligan Street, Bunbury
When: 11.30 - 3.00pm, Thursday 30 June 2016
Further information about the workshop is available on the Consultation Hub on the ACCC's website at www.accc.gov.au/consultations.
For those that cannot attend the workshops, complaints, information or questions can be sent to the ACCC at agricultureworkshops@accc.gov.au.
The 16th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference & Trade Exhibition
The Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference and Trade Exhibition is the premier technical event for the Australian wine industry. Held every three years since 1970, it combines an extensive program of plenary sessions, workshops, posters, student forum and social events with the industry’s most respected and extensive trade exhibition.
When: 24 – 28 July 2016
Where: Adelaide
Registration costs and program details can be found on the events webpage.
Cabernet Hang-time Forum
For your calendar Wines of WA, the Wine Industry Technical committee, the AWRI, Curtin University, UWA and DAFWA will be hosting a Cabernet Hang-time forum for industry in Margaret River on 24 January 2017.
The forum will utilise outcomes from field trials, small batch winemaking and sensory evaluations by AWRI on Cabernet production in WA and current research on hang-time being conducted throughout other regions in Australia and overseas. Curtin University with the AWRI will conduct a tasting to illustrate the sensory differences associated with different hang-times.
Other presentations will highlight some of the international and Australian research in this area. These presentations include two speakers from the AWRI, Keren Bindon (Impact of hang time on phenolics), Simon Nordestgaard (fruit sorting) and a speaker from the University of Adelaide, Olaf Schelezki (optimisation of harvesting) and a potential guest speaker from California (TBC).
Research undertaken by DAFWA and Curtin will provide attendees with current data on yield and profitability parameters associated with different hang-times. The forum will conclude with a presentation on climate change modelling specific to the Margaret River region.
Further details will be provided closer to the date of the event.
If you have any specific questions for inclusion at the forum, please contact Larry Jorgensen (Wines of WA).