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Renewing the Australian Wine Industry from the Ground Up
28 July 2026 Australian wine faces a series of challenges in realizing its potential as a “great” wine producing nation. Despite many examples of fine, even great, wine being produced here, they are a vanishingly small percentage of overall wine production with relatively minute amounts being exported to be appreciated for their inherent worth globally. Absent more high-quality brands that express individuality and greater quantities of these wines being exported, the “Australia” wine brand will continue to languish globally due to a perception of Australian wine as a low-value or insufficiently differentiated artefact of industrial farming and winemaking.