Down The Rabbit Hole wines, produced in McLaren Vale are quickly garnering the attention of SA locals as one of the most exciting new range of wine labels to emerge on the market. They’re popularity has seen over 180 stockists range Down The Rabbit Hole wines and now releasing a 2013 tempranillo, its growing portfolio looks only to gain the attention of others. The tempranillo joins the 2013 Shiraz in Dow...

Much has been written about the main white varieties and, to a lesser extent, about the better known alternative whites like verdelho, marsanne and fiano. But there is also a plethora of lesser-known varieties. Meet the kids. Most of the billions of litres of wine in existence in the world were made from a handful of grape varieties – about 30 to 50 at most – out of the 1,368 varieties identified by Janci...

Coinciding with Aussie Wine Month and led by AFFW’s fourth chairman Robert Hill-Smith, the highly anticipated UNLOCKED tour will sweep into San Francisco on May 18. In a whirlwind tour pitched at both trade and consumer, to help put Australian wine back into the North American repertoire, 12 family representatives who collectively make up Australia’s First Families of Wine (AFFW), will participate in the ...

Following the popular release in March of Rekorderlig Festival Äpple Cider, Rekorderlig is now rolling out the new release of its Premium Festival Pear Cider. The pear cider has a 6.5% ABV and is the latest addition to the growing Rekorderlig brand, targeting new male and female consumers with a taste for premium products. The higher ABV also offers a unique flavour, as while Festival Pear has flavours of...

Entries are now open to the Angostura Global Cocktail Challenge and island2island is calling on bartenders nationwide to enter and defend the global title previously won by Australian bartender, Mike Tomasic in 2014. Entering bartenders will be up for the chance to win AU$10,000 prize money, a 12-month contract as the Australian Angostura Brand Ambassador and a trip to Trinidad during Carnivale, where the...

We've gone through the 2015 Budget and outlined the key areas for businesses within the drinks and hospitality industries. Refer below to see what the most important sections of the 2015 Budget are for you and what they mean for your business with regards to small business and employment, farming and agriculture, and foreign affairs and trade. 2015 Federal Budget Overview Funding has been given to smal...

Four inspiring industry professionals are now one step closer to winning a once-in-a-lifetime overseas work experience and a year’s mentorship with a local leaders as part of the 2015 Hostplus Hospitality Scholarship. drinks bulletin will bring you the announcement of the final winner and runner-up in June. Finalists that will go through to the next judging phase are: Damien Neylon, Sous Chef, Brae, VIC....

After two days of nail biting competition in Sydney, Jack Sotti, Bar Manager behind Eau de Vie’s newest venture, Boilermaker House, has be named this year’s Australian ‘Bartender of the Year’ - winning the DIAGEO RESERVE WORLD CLASS National Final. Sotti beat out 24 of the country’s best bartenders in this weekend’s National Finals, with contenders drawn from a pool of over 343 total applicants. Finalists...

Peter Barnes, Chairman of Metcash Limited has announced that he will retire later in August. As a result, former CEO of Lion and Nestle Oceania, Robert Murray, has been appointed to Metcash’s Board of Directors as Non-Executive Director and will become Chairman once Mr. Barnes steps down later in the year. Mr. Barnes said: “It is my stated intention to retire from Metcash during my current term and I anno...

Since the formation of the first Women in drinks Board earlier in March, Board members have been working closely to build an agreed Charter for the body. The newly formalised Charter will set the Women in drinks’ Purpose, Vision, Objectives and annual calendar. The Women in drinks community was founded in 2012 by the drinks association (publisher of drinks bulletin) to create a community among women wor...