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
At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.
More than fifteen years later and I currently spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.
While wearing my writer hat I contribute to the likes of The Retiree; Gourmet Traveller WINE, National Liquor News and the RAS plus I'm a Lifestyle FOOD channel wine expert.
Crowned the 2009/10 WCA Wine Journalism 'Young Gun', in my spare time I'm a wine judge and recently graduated with a Masters in Wine Technology & Viticulture from Melbourne University.
This site (Australian Wine Review or ozwinereview for short) is dedicated to talking about wine, beer and other good things. Largely focused on Australian wine, but with a healthy dose of tasty vino from NZ, France, Italy, Spain.. oh hell, if it's good, I'm in.
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Comment
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…:(