Briefcase: Business snippets from around SA

In this week’s briefcase, SA is on track for a top-dollar grain harvest, Wine Australia announces its new CEO and Marmota takes full ownership of a uranium tenement in the state’s northeast.

Surging wine exports defy pandemic slump as China sanctions loom

Australia’s wine exports have grown to reach the highest value since 2007, despite the coronavirus pandemic and the threat of tariffs from its biggest wine customer China.

Senator Anne Ruston's April 1 declaration is intended to ensure our export wines contain fewer impurities and are made only by "fit and proper" people. Photo: Philip White

The April Fool's Day grape guarantee

Philip White questions the timing of Senator Anne Ruston’s new Wine Australia edict.

Cellar doors drive boutique winery growth

Cellar door and mail order sales are driving strong growth for small wineries, the latest survey results published by Wine Australia have found.

The truth behind the latest wine export figures

On the feast day of St Vincent, patron of vintners, Whitey contemplates some sobering export numbers from Wine Australia.