The Vintage Journal by Andrew Caillard

In preparation for Green Wine Future 2022, Andrew Caillard MW has been asked to create a series of podcasts to explore how the Australian wine industry is preparing for climate change. In Episode 4, Andrew discusses sustainability in Australia with guests from Pernod Ricard, Chief Operations Officer Brett McKinnon and Global Communications Manager Sarah Descher.

In preparation for Green Wine Future 2022, Andrew Caillard MW has been asked to create a series of podcasts to explore how the Australian wine industry is preparing for climate change. In Episode 2, Andrew discusses sustainability in Australia with guest Ben Harris, Viticulture Manager for Treasury Wine Estates across Australia and New Zealand.

Simon West and Darren Oemcke from Aussie Wine Chat catch up with Andrew Caillard and Angus Hughson to talk all things Vintage Journal and The Australian Ark project - Andrew Caillard's upcoming 3 volume tome on the history of Australian wine, told through over 200 years of stories.

Andrew Caillard, historian and Master of Wine, describes his tasting experience of the Seppeltsfield 1921 100 Year Old Para Vintage Tawny.

1855 to 1960s Australian Grape Vine Stories; Grand dreams and boom-bust-boom Fortunes were mixed after the great promise of the 1860s and early 1870s. Many of Australia’s greatest 19th Century vineyards were planted during this time. Economic, social and agricultural challenges hampered progress. The arrival of Phylloxera in Victoria in 1875 was met with a scorched earth policy. But South Australia’s quarantine laws protected the vast plantings of grape vines especially around Adelaide, McLaren Vale, Barossa and the Clare Valleys. Australian Burgundy boomed in the 1880s and 1890s. After the Second World War plant breeding programmes were introduced to improve colonial vinestock material, while only a trickle of new clones and selections were permitted into Australia.

1788 to 1820s Australian Grape Vine Stories; A race to the other side of the world Ambitions for a wine industry in New South Wales were caught up in the British Government’s aspirations of expanding trade routes and wealth creation. From 1788 to the 1820s, colonial wine was a cottage industry but the pioneers from Sir Joseph Banks in London to John Macarthur and nurseryman Thomas Shepherd in Sydney believed that Australia could become the France of the Southern Hemisphere. But the first years of settlement were not without political troubles and serious economic challenges.