by Keryn | Dec 7, 2018 | AWRI, CSIRO, News, Students, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite, WRI |
Why should we preserve trees in our cities and towns? Can we grow healthy crops in sandy soils? How important are insects to agriculture? Does the yeast a winemaker chooses really affect the wine produced? Can we really turn food waste into usable new products? Waite...
by Keryn | Dec 5, 2018 | AWRI, Home page slider, News, Wine Innovation Cluster |
The 17th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference (AWITC) will be descending on Adelaide, 21 – 24 July 2019. The AWITC is the premier technical event for the Australian wine industry and includes plenary and Outlook sessions, the McWilliam’s Maurice O’Shea Award...
by Keryn | Nov 27, 2018 | AWRI, News, Research stories |
A new study has questioned standard thinking about the effects of dissolved carbon dioxide (C02) on sweetness, bitterness and astringency in still white and red wines. The findings of the study – funded by Wine Australia and believed to be the first of its type on the...
by Keryn | Nov 21, 2018 | AWRI, News, Women of Waite |
Congratulations to Waite researcher Dr Jacqui McRae from the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI), who was announced as the 2018 Researcher / Innovator of the Year in the Australian Women in Wine Awards at an event in Sydney on Friday 16 November. Jacqui is a...
by Keryn | Oct 18, 2018 | AWRI, News, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite |
Congratulations to Dr Jacqui McRae (AWRI) and Associate Professor Kerry Wilkinson (The University of Adelaide) on being named 2018 Australian Women in Wine Award finalists in the Researcher of the Year category! The Australian Women In Wine Awards acknowledges and...
by Keryn | Oct 5, 2018 | AWRI, News, Wine Innovation Cluster |
The AWRI has released six new webinars. Registration via the AWRI website is now open! Starting on 11 October, Dr Everard Edwards from CSIRO provides insights into how vine balance can directly affect fruit composition. The next five webinars address weather...
by Ruaraidh Mills | Sep 11, 2018 | AWRI, News, Research stories |
Can regional microbiota influence wine style over the longer term? Research is increasingly suggesting that it can. Two years into a formal four-year study funded by Wine Australia, the ancient practice of ‘bioprospecting’ is emerging as an exciting new buzzword in...
by Keryn | Sep 10, 2018 | AWRI, CSIRO, News, Plant Cell Walls, Plant Energy Biology, SARDI, Training Centre for Innovative Wine Production, University of Adelaide, WheatHub, Women of Waite, WRI |
The Australian Academy of Science Early- and Mid- Career Researcher (EMCR) Forum is opening expressions of interests for EMCRs to join the Executive Committee in 2019. The EMCR Forum are here to represent EMCRs from all sectors and in all disciplines. There are...
by Keryn | Aug 22, 2018 | AWRI, News, Students, Training Centre for Innovative Wine Production, Undergraduate, University of Adelaide, Wine Innovation Cluster |
Applications are invited from talented students who want to attend the 2018 Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology (ASVO) seminar. Three scholarships are being offered to ASVO members. The scholarship will cover the cost of seminar registration. The ASVO one...
by Keryn | Aug 2, 2018 | AWRI, News, Research stories |
Hybrid yeast strains that have a traditional wine yeast as one parent and a non-traditional yeast as the other parent are an important part of the AWRI’s yeast strain development research and can bring interesting new characters and behaviours to wine, without any...
