The insights were presented by the 10 recipients of the 2024-25 Great Wine Capitals Outbound Knowledge Exchange bursaries, who travelled to Great Wine Capitals around the world to exchange expertise. During their travels, bursary recipients met with key industry, regional and education stakeholders to share their experience, expertise, and energy, as well as learn about practices and operations in their chosen field.
Video: watch the 10 key takeaways and ideas for growth and innovation for the wine industry.
The presenters pitched ideas as diverse as water sustainability, creating demand for premium wine, mapping grapevine genetics, and NOLO innovations, to sheep grazing in vineyards, sparkling wine, luxury experiences, drought resilience, sustainable wine tourism, and regional collaboration. Their insights were welcomed by their South Australian wine industry peers, and sparked vibrant discussion about new opportunities and connections.
Each person has written a blog and delivered a presentation capturing their experience, and their ideas for the South Australian wine industry. The recordings of their presentations, as well as blogs that capture their experience exploring other Great Wine Capitals, are publicly available to maximise the benefit to the broader South Australian wine industry – and the global wine industry for that matter.