by Lieke Van Der Hulst | 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 Lieke Van Der Hulst | 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 Lieke Van Der Hulst | 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 Lieke Van Der Hulst | 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...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Aug 2, 2018 | AWRI, News
A further brew of ‘The Wreck – Preservation Ale’ has been made, giving scientists, historians and beer lovers across Australia a chance to try this unique beer. Brewed with the yeast isolated by AWRI scientists from bottles found in the 1797 wreck of the Sydney Cove,...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 15, 2018 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, AWRI, News, University of Adelaide
Plant research at the University of Adelaide will benefit from a $2.6 million research infrastructure investment announced at Waite on May 15. The grant was announced under the Federal Government’s new $1.9 billion Research Infrastructure Investment Plan Facilities...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 10, 2018 | AWRI, News, Research stories
Created in partnership with the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) in Launceston and the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) in Adelaide, James Squire is set to release perhaps its most rare and special beer to date – a resurrection of the world’s...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 3, 2018 | AWRI, CSIRO, News, SARDI, Training Centre for Innovative Wine Production, University of Adelaide, Wine Innovation Cluster
The Waite’s Coombe vineyard extension was officially opened on 26 April, with research and industry partners gathering in bright, balmy Autumn weather to view and celebrate the new section. In announcing the completion of the project, which takes the total Coombe...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 5, 2018 | AWRI, News
The first fruit has been harvested for the AWRI’s 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon winemaking trial, in which eighteen 150 kg ferments will be conducted, with a single winemaking variable being changed in each one. This trial follows on from two successful previous vintage...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 4, 2018 | ACPFG, Adelaide Glycomics, AGRF, AGT, Arris Pty Ltd, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, AWRI, CSIRO, Food Plus Research Centre, Food SA, News, Participation, Plant Cell Walls, Plant Energy Biology, SAFIC, SARDI, Training Centre for Innovative Wine Production, University of Adelaide, WheatHub, Wine Innovation Cluster, WRI
The Waite Research Precinct is full of inspiring women! They are everywhere – working across all disciplines and all the campus partner organisations. The concept of a Women of Waite (WoW) group or network has been floated on and off for some time, and the strong...
