Great Southern Wine Producers Association
Description
Formed in 1999.
The objects of the Association are to:
(a) Promote Great Southern regional wine on a regional, state, national, and international
level.
(b) Encourage and foster the Great Southern as a wine tourism destination.
(c) Promote and participate in joint initiatives between members in achieving the objects.
(d) Forge close links and co-operate with organisations and others to further the objects of
the Association, including but not limited to regional food, accommodation, and tourism
groups.
(e) Encourage the dissemination and uptake of technical, marketing and research
information to enhance the performance of the Great Southern regional wine industry.
(f) Raise money and accept donations to achieve the objects of the Association including
receiving and applying monies from members, sponsors, governments, or other like
institutions.
(g) Raise and donate monies to or assist any other not for profit charitable institution whether
incorporated or not as the need may arise.
The objects of the Association are to:
(a) Promote Great Southern regional wine on a regional, state, national, and international
level.
(b) Encourage and foster the Great Southern as a wine tourism destination.
(c) Promote and participate in joint initiatives between members in achieving the objects.
(d) Forge close links and co-operate with organisations and others to further the objects of
the Association, including but not limited to regional food, accommodation, and tourism
groups.
(e) Encourage the dissemination and uptake of technical, marketing and research
information to enhance the performance of the Great Southern regional wine industry.
(f) Raise money and accept donations to achieve the objects of the Association including
receiving and applying monies from members, sponsors, governments, or other like
institutions.
(g) Raise and donate monies to or assist any other not for profit charitable institution whether
incorporated or not as the need may arise.
Activities/Projects
1. DPIRD Provenance Project
Building upon previous work conducted on profiling the unique climatic and geophysical elements of the Margaret River region and applying these methodologies to the Great Southern this project will use a scientific approach to investigate the relationship between site and product. The varietal focus is Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon in Margaret River and Shiraz and Riesling in the Great Southern. A key output of this project will be a template for other regions to develop a provenance narrative specific to their region.
Outcomes
1. Understand the metabolomics of wines produced from unique geophysical and climatic locals within two of Western Australia’s largest producing wine regions
2. Understand the sensory attributes of wines produced from unique geophysical and climatic locals within two of Western Australia’s largest producing wine regions
3. Identify relationships between metabolome and sensory profile within region/locality and variety
4. Provide industry with scientific rigour when communicating uniqueness across two of Western Australia’s largest producing wine regions
2. 5 year strategic plan and stakeholder review
Currently developing our next 5 year plan 2024-2028 including repeating and re-visiting a stakeholder market research survey first completed in 2018 in order to accurately measure our progress and current market needs.
Building upon previous work conducted on profiling the unique climatic and geophysical elements of the Margaret River region and applying these methodologies to the Great Southern this project will use a scientific approach to investigate the relationship between site and product. The varietal focus is Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon in Margaret River and Shiraz and Riesling in the Great Southern. A key output of this project will be a template for other regions to develop a provenance narrative specific to their region.
Outcomes
1. Understand the metabolomics of wines produced from unique geophysical and climatic locals within two of Western Australia’s largest producing wine regions
2. Understand the sensory attributes of wines produced from unique geophysical and climatic locals within two of Western Australia’s largest producing wine regions
3. Identify relationships between metabolome and sensory profile within region/locality and variety
4. Provide industry with scientific rigour when communicating uniqueness across two of Western Australia’s largest producing wine regions
2. 5 year strategic plan and stakeholder review
Currently developing our next 5 year plan 2024-2028 including repeating and re-visiting a stakeholder market research survey first completed in 2018 in order to accurately measure our progress and current market needs.
Past Accomplishments
• Significant growth in the domestic and export market sales for Great Southern wine producers.• New branding suite of tools to improve the presentation of the association and members in building domestic and export sales.• The group engages in RDEA extending technical production research to members around farming systems and production aspects including soil management, smoke taint, pests and diseases. • Past research applications the group has made include weather technology • the group engages with and collaborates with DPIRD in providing access to growers, informing around technical issues in the region, has collaborated in research around topics such as cabernet genetics and trunk research with some members involved in trials. • We have also run study tours for peer to peer learning and the like.