What are new wineries?
Halliday marks as new wineries that appear for the first time in each edition. In the 2009 Companion 169 wineries are marked as new, compared to 218 the previous year. These may not neccesarily be what you might call a new winery. Perhaps there has been a name change. Some wineries may have been operating on a small scale for some time and have only recently been noticed, maybe by snagging a gold medal somewhere. Other wineries arise as joint ventures of existing winemakers for a particular purpose, for example “The Saviours” a group of winemakers and grapegrowers in the Eden Valley who have pooled their talents and resources to increase the reputation of their region by producing wine under the label of “Eden Valley Wines” The 2009 edition also documents the rise of warehouse wineries. These operations differ greatly from what we old fogies used to imagine a winery should be. We used to think that to make wine you first had to buy some land in a suitable area grow grapes, survive the
