The Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
May 2009 issue 544
contents
news
6 About Yellow Tail, the Corolla and the Lexus
7 Special report: Time for radical thinking: grapegrowing in the Northern Territory
grapegrowing
16 Dr Chris Bourke: Savagnin, Traminer, Gewurztraminer and the Albarino confusion
26 Viticulture forum: rootstocks
30 Dr Angela Lush: snails in viticulture
32 2009 vintage snapshots
pruning solutions
34 Let robots do the pruning
vine improvement group reports
36 2008 Australian Vine Improvement Association Inc report
37 Drought impacts VAMVVIA cuttings
39 Cuttings sales down, but Cabernet clonal trial excites WAVIA
post-harvest review
40 Nita Hedditch: Post-vintage review of systems and processes, time to look ahead frost protection
43 Frost protection by use of overhead irrigation winemaking
47 Greg Howell: Vintage 2009: hazy days
49 Cathy Howard: Achieving best practice in wine filtration
52 10 favourite pieces of equipment from the Unified symposium
56 WFA update: joint council reflects greater cooperation
58 A future for the Riverland: an alternative view
60 When size matters: Casella's new bottling line is big news
winery engineering association conference and exhibition
62 National Conference preview
IT in the wine industry
73 Wineries, time to get blogging
australian wine business
75 Jeni Port: Bag in Box: the cask is looking cool
77 Peter Siegers: Tax office sets sights on 'uncommercial' WET practices