{"id":318663,"date":"2025-11-25T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/your-monday-spicy-confected-outrage-from-nsw-wine\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:36:08","slug":"your-monday-spicy-confected-outrage-from-nsw-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=318663","title":{"rendered":"Your Monday spicy confected outrage from NSW Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I\u2019m not in the habit of regurgitating press releases here at Australian Wine and Drinks Review, but I did see a particularly haughty press release from NSW Wine today that attacks the appointment of Pommery as the \u2018Official Champagne Partner\u2019 to the Sydney Opera House.<\/p>\n

The NSW Wine press release is titled \u2018Sydney Opera House Turns its Back on Struggling NSW Wine Industry\u2019 for maximum inflammatory cut through, with the subtitle that \u2018taxpayer-funded venue chooses French Champagne while local grape growers face oversupply crisis\u2019.<\/p>\n

Sheesh.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, I was invited to the announcement of the Pommery tie-up, so I\u2019m a bit closer to this story than most (I didn\u2019t go to the Opera House, but I got all the info \u2013 the promo photo up the top of this post), and I\u2019m fascinated by how it has gone. Effectively, Pommery has entered into a three-year commercial arrangement with the local arm of Vranken-Pommery Monopole to make Pommery the sparkling wine of choice at opera house events, plus the official \u2018Event Partner\u2019 to the Utzon Music series, and clearly, NSW Wine see this as discriminating against local wine.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to defend Pommery at all here (and if anything, I\u2019m on the NSW wine side of the fence), but I also question what the point of this sort of attack is. Sure, it\u2019s attention-grabbing to be criticising the Opera House, and that\u2019s probably the point, but I see lines like this \u2018the partnership represents a missed opportunity to provide vital market access to local producers who are fighting for survival,\u2019 and question whether it\u2019s actually a genuine missed opportunity given that a NSW wine producer isn\u2019t exactly coughing up the dollars to do it (let alone NSW Wine focusing on promoting local sparkling).<\/p>\n

Then again, there is a genuine, major issue that deserves attention, cloaked in this straw man argument: NSW venues still don\u2019t support the state\u2019s wine anywhere near enough.<\/p>\n

I see approaching 200 local and international wine lists per year (wearing my various WLOTY judges\u2019 hats), and for a state with a strong wine industry, there is a distinct lack of support for local wines. It\u2019s especially apparent when diving into top Adelaide, Melbourne or Perth wine lists where local wines dominate (especially Melbourne, where Vic-centric lists are the norm) and then you come back to Sydney restaurants where it can feel like NSW wine doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Also, sparkling wine is the worst-case scenario. It can be hard to find an Australian sparkling wine on a local list, let alone anything made within 500kms, which bites extra hard given the bubbly greatness coming out of Tumbarumba, Orange, etc.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, NSW Wine\u2019s attack on the Pommery tie-up doesn\u2019t stand up. But beneath the outrage, there is a truth here \u2013 that NSW winemakers are losing out with local drinkers.<\/p>\n

Time to drink more Hunter Semillon, yeah?<\/p>\n

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