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A New Year Brings a Hive of Activity and Events for WCA Members

2019-02-11T10:49:05+10:3011 February 2019|Media release, News|

If there was ever a time to benefit from joining the wine communicators conversation, now is it! It is with eager anticipation that Wine Communicators Australia (WCA) looks towards 2019 and its full calendar of events, awards, conferences and educational and communication activities. Lynda Schenk, Executive Officer of WCA, and the person responsible for designing and now delivering the action packed schedule, said, “The WCA Board, state chapter members and

Australia’s grape and wine producers unite

2019-02-04T14:08:16+10:304 February 2019|News|

Australian Grape & Wine Incorporated (Australian Grape & Wine) was officially launched last week, delivering on the industry’s call for a single united peak industry organisation, representing Australia’s winegrape and wine producers. On 13 November 2018, members of both the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia and Australian Vignerons unanimously voted for the two organisations to amalgamate, resulting in the creation of Australian Grape & Wine. The inaugural Chairman, Sandy Clark said

Wine magic and storytelling with Tony Love

2019-01-13T14:58:41+10:3013 January 2019|Blog|

Of course I made a list of questions before going to see Tony Love at his home office in Crafers but I did not need it anymore from the moment I walked in the door. Journalism, wine regions, sensory descriptors – an opulent flow of knowledge was released as soon as we started to talk. As a true storyteller, he told me about some cracker wine recommendations, what makes him

Enjoy our wines, protect our vines

2019-01-13T14:10:03+10:3013 January 2019|Blog|

Here is an interesting fact for you: turns out 44% of women and 28% of men think they can just waltz into a vineyard and take a couple selfies while they are on a wine tour. Scrolling through my Instagram I can tell you I am just as guilty as any other wine loving girl with a smartphone. I mean, really; how good do those photos look when you have

WCA welcomes new Marketing Coordinator

2018-12-21T10:11:55+10:3021 December 2018|Media release, News|

Wine Communicators of Australia (WCA) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Prue Kline as its new Marketing Coordinator. Joining the WCA in November 2018, Prue has a strong background and over two decades of involvement in the wine industry, with a wide breadth of experience ranging from sales and segmentation, events and tourism, and relationship management.   WCA Executive Officer, Lynda Schenk said the appointment would see the WCA

Wine Communicators of Australia brings international Wine Media Conference to Australia in October 2019

2018-12-05T10:34:35+10:304 December 2018|Media release, News|

 For the first time in its 12-year history, the Wine Media Conference (formerly known as the Wine Bloggers Conference) will be held outside North America, taking place in the Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia from October 10 – 12, 2019. In what promises to be a remarkable boon to the Australian wine communications industry and wine tourism in general, the Wine Communicators of Australia (WCA) successfully applied and won the right

WSET Educator of the Year Award 2018 shortlist announced

2018-11-23T13:26:59+10:3023 November 2018|News|

Wine Communicators silver partner WSET have announced the shortlist for the WSET Educator of the Year Award 2018. Australia's very own 'Get Wine Smart', previously known as 'Wine Construct', has been included as one of seven nominees from across the globe. To find out more about the award and check out all of the worthy nominees CLICK HERE  

China 360: A rare look at China’s booming wine scene

2018-11-22T20:16:14+10:3022 November 2018|News|

We all know China is drinking more Australian wine, but we recently paused to consider the question in reverse... “would we drink more Chinese wine if it was available?” At the recent WCA “China 360” wine event, hosted at the Handpicked Wines Cellar Door in Sydney, we took up the challenge and tasted 3 pairs of like-quality Chinese and Australian wines and took a vote to see which wines people

WCA chapter members and executive celebrate at the Australian Women in Wine Awards

2018-11-22T10:51:52+10:3020 November 2018|News|

Wine Communicators were out in force and celebrating at last Friday's 2018 at the Australian Women in Wine Awards.  Lynda Schenk, the Executive Officer of WCA,  was awarded the Marketer of the Year for her work with Riverland Wine undertaken as a part of her role as the owner/founder of Purple Giraffe Marketing, an Adelaide based marketing consultancy that she began in 2014. Shirley Fraser, WCA South Australian Chapter Chair

The United Nations of Wine

2018-11-19T11:38:06+10:3019 November 2018|Blog|

“It is like seeing a great congregation of the United Nations”, Peter Gago, chief winemaker at Penfolds, said when welcoming the full international delegation of the Great Wine Capitals in their cellars at Magill. My guess is, that if the United Nations would actually come together in similar style to the GWC, a lot of the world’s problems would be solved rather quickly. The Great Wine Capitals network includes ten

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