In todays news, Wayne Swan has decided to stick the knife in to small producers, by threatening to remove the WET rebate that so many rely on to keep small wineries profitable.
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About me – Andrew Graham
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At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say, I discovered wine, and my life evolved with a unique dual focus - wine and environment.
Twenty years later and I spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.
I now judge at wine shows around the world, sit on the Australian Wine List of the Year awards panel and was once a Wine Journalism Young Gun (but baby that was years ago).
Currently, I write features for a variety of publications including National Liquor News, Gourmet Traveller WINE and the RAS, plus I'm a former Lifestyle FOOD channel wine expert.
In 2019 and 2020 I was voted in the Top 30 Best Wine Critics in The World, and in my spare time, I'm a sucker for punishment and run trail ultra marathons, much to the delight of my long-suffering family. Read more about me here or get in touch to book your next wine event with me here
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Part of a grand plan to oust the small family wineries and keep the multi-nationals afloat in the glut?? Not good at all…. All we can hope is that people support the small wineries otherwise we will all simply disappear. It’s already verging on a non-profitable business (unless you charge $50+ a bottle for each wine) so it will certainly make it harder for those of us who are driven by passion rather than profit…:(