The Vintage Journal by Andrew Caillard

Andrew Caillard MW interviewed on Perth's Curtin Radio about The Wine Journal 2023

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 3, 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.

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 1, Andrew discusses sustainability in Australia with guests James March, Chief Executive Officer of Barossa Australia, and Kerrin Petty, Chief Supply Officer at Treasury Wine Estates.

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.

These Para Vintage Tawnies are really, really rare wines because they have lasted 100 years and they still exist after another century. You know, you can buy bottles of Claret or Burgundy that might be 100 years old, but you don't ever quite know how they're going to be. Now, some of those are lasting and they can be magnificent, but one of the things about fortified wine, and particularly about this particular style of wine, is they're being aged in such a way that they still have the...

I think Seppeltsfield Para Vintage Tawny is one of the great wine traditions of the world. They are extremely rare wines because they have lasted 100 years and they will continue to exist for another 100 or even 170 years. Although very old bottles of Bordeaux, Rioja or Burgundy have survived and sometimes are extraordinary – there are never any guarantees and most are curios. On the other hand, Seppeltsfield Para Vintage Tawnies were laid down with the ambition for them to last for at...

Photo courtesy of Leeuwin Estate, Margaret River Western Australia

Photo courtesy of Langmeil - Old Vines

1820s to 1855 Australian Grape Vine Stories; Convictions and transportation There were many new importations of vitis vinifera during the 1820s to 1855. The most famous was the remarkable collection of grape vines imported into New South Wales by James Busby in 1832. William Macarthur of Camden Nurseries becomes a highly influential figure supplying many of Australia’s earliest pioneers with vine stock material for planting in the Australian colonies. This was also the dawn of the steam age,...

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...