- Title
- Wine law in Australia: Challenges of Local Identity in a Global Marketplace
- Creator
- Toohey, Lisa
- Relation
- Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market p. 175-196
- Publisher
- Brill
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Australia is a well-known producer of wine as well as a country of avid wine consumers. The wine industry is increasingly important for the economy, with strong growth predicted over the coming decade.1 Revenue reached $6.9 billion in 2019 and it is expected to grow to a total value of $8.2 billion within five years.2 Wine export and wine tourism contribute significantly to the Australian economy and it is perhaps surprising to some that Australia is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of wines by value (following France, Italy and Spain), the largest non-European exporter of wine, and one of the fastest-growing ex-porters globally. Although researchers are only just beginning to systematically explore the history of fermentation practices by Australia’s indigenous population,4 the history of wine in the country is generally considered to have commenced when the grape vine was introduced as an imported species by British colonists. Since then, much has changed, in particular, the identity of an “Australian wine” has evolved, the notion of terroir has become a great deal more sophisticated, and the industry itself has experienced significant changes. Nonetheless, there is a remarkable amount of thematic continuity between the earliest regulatory interventions in the colony and the modern-day con-tours of Australian wine law. The development of an identity for Australian wine, and the development of wine law and regulation, has been intertwined with other political contexts quite unique to Australia.
- Subject
- wine producers; wine consumers; Australian wine; Australian wine law
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1440645
- Identifier
- uon:41208
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789004438309
- Language
- eng
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