ANZG&W Issue 500 September 2005

australian & new zealand grapegrower & winemaker

Issue 500 - September 2005

Table of Contents

News

8   Innovation is the key to survival for the wine industry
10  Aussies in upper echelon
11  One exhibition for 2007
12  National farm equipment safety checks
13  Winemaker in top NSW post

overseas

14  Frontiers

grapegrowing

17  Undercover work paying dividends
22  Microbial soil health
26  Yield estimation – can we do better? The Tinlins McLaren Vale Shiraz experience
30  Ben Rose: Real Viticulture
33  Viticulturist profile: Brian Freeman

pests & disease management

37  What is eating your grapevine moth?
44  Controlling powdery mildew late
51  Grapevine disease resistance and compost
54  Copper fungicides inhibit powdery mildew

winemaking

69  All you wanted to know about tannins

bottling, labelling and packaging

78  Co-reliance works

australian wine business

86  Complacency Australia’s biggest threat in rapidly changing global marketplace
90  Choosing the right financier
95  Victorians selling wine to China – why not?

new zealand

97  Working together to beat labour shortage
99  Diplomacy dinner