Welcome to ‘AWRI decanted’ – a podcast from the Australian Wine Research Institute. Meet the scientists working behind the scenes for the Australian wine industry, hear about their latest discoveries and how they are being adopted by Australia’s grapegrowers and winemakers. The second series (eight episodes, released fortnightly) shares some of the latest viticultural research from across Australia and stories from the growers who are applying it.
‘AWRI decanted’ is hosted by Drew Radford, from PodTalk. Drew is an accomplished reporter and broadcaster who has worked for Triple J, ABC News & Current Affairs and ABC Local Radio in the roles of journalist, Executive Producer and Director of ABC South Australia. Drew is a published author and documentary maker.
‘AWRI decanted’ is supported by Wine Australia, with levies from Australia’s grapegrowers and winemakers and matching funds from the Australian Government. The AWRI is a member of the Wine Innovation Cluster in Adelaide, SA.
Subscribe now via your favourite podcast app or listen to individual episodes listed below.
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AWRI DECANTED – SERIES 2 APPLYING VITICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE VINEYARD
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| Trialling foliar spraying for tropical flavour in an organic vineyard |  Tamburlaine Organic Wines |
19 January 2024 | Applying nitrogen and sulfur foliar sprays to boost tropical flavours in white wine (AWRI fact sheet)
Foliar spray case studies |
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| How simple foliar sprays in the vineyard can boost white wine flavour |  |
17 January 2024 | Foliar sprays to boost tropical flavours (AWRI webpage)
Enhancing tropical fruit flavour through foliar nutrient sprays Influencing tropical thiol concentration in white wine by combining foliar sprays |
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| Vineyard transformation through automation |  Pernod Ricard |
13 September2022 | News article about self-driving tractors
Article about autonomous vineyard vehicles developed in New Zealand Mission possible: Driving autonomous technology in New Zealand vineyards Oxin website (autonomous vineyard tractor producer in New Zealand) |
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| Autonomous tractors and mechanical weed control |  |
30 August 2022 | Autonomous vineyard robots and tractors (industry article)
Autonomous robots and electric tractors – where are they at? |
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| Benefits of regenerative viticulture practices |  |
16 August 2022 | Is being sustainable enough for Australian wine? Regenerative agriculture can redefine what is best practice viticulture (Nuffield Australia Scholarship final report)
Is being sustainable enough for Australian wine? Regenerative agriculture can redefine what is best practice viticulture |
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| Understanding soil carbon in vineyards – what’s in it for growers? |  |
2 August 2022 | Building soil carbon in vineyards (AWRI webinar)
Cover crops and carbon stocks (Journal article – request from AWRI library) Sown undervine cover crops The ins and outs of under-vine cover cropping (AWRI webinar) |
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| How our vineyard weed management has evolved over time |  |
19 July 2022 | AWRI resources on non-chemical weed management | |
| Controlling weeds without chemicals – cover crops on the vineyard floor |  Chris Penfold, AWRI |
5 July 2022 | AWRI resources on non-chemical weed management
Non-chemical weed control |
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| Using less water in a warming climate |  |
21 June 2022 | Techniques used at the Euston vineyard to dramatically reduce water requirement | |
| Optimising vineyard irrigation – current research |  |
7 June 2022 | Water management (AWRI webpage)Water management for wine grapes in a drying environment (Wine Australia booklet) Vineyard irrigation efficiency |
AWRI DECANTED – SERIES 1 WINE FLAVOUR
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| Understanding regional flavours in Australian Shiraz |  |
14 September 2021 | Understanding regionality in Shiraz (AWITC presentation recording)
Shiraz terroir – linking regional sensory characters to chemical and climate profiles (industry article) |
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| Why are winemakers throwing away flavour? |  |
28 September 2021 | Boosting floral aroma of wine with flavourless grape extracts (industry article) | |
| Eucalyptus flavour in wine |  |
12 October 2021 | Eucalyptus character in wine (fact sheet) | |
| Pepper flavour in wine– what’s going on in the vineyard? |  |
26 October 2021 | Pepper flavour in wine (fact sheet)
Mapping the origins of high rotundone and pepper flavour in wine (industry article) |
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| Stone fruit flavour in white wine |  |
9 November 2021 | Why does this wine smell like apricots? (webinar recording) | |
| Oxygen – breathing life into red wine flavour |  |
23 November 2021 | Aeration of red ferments gets the thumbs up on wine quality (Wine Australia news article) | |
| Why I add oxygen to my red ferments |  Matt Zadow (Yalumba’s Oxford Landing Winery – Operational Winemaker) |
7 December 2021 | Delivering oxygen to ferments (fact sheet) |