Berri Estates, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest wine estate, may not sound familiar. But you may very well have had a wine from there. Berri Estates is located in Australia’s largest wine region, the Riverland in South Australia. The ultra-modern winery exports over 100 million litres of wine a year. Berri is the largest producer of bag-in-box wine in Australia, with 60 million boxes, almost half of all boxes sold in Australia.
In the article below, winemaker Vikki Wade talks about the changes that have taken place during the 30 years she has worked at Berri Estates. When she started, they mainly made fortified wines and sweet generic wines from gordo (muscat d’alexandrie) and riesling.
In the late 1990s, the big change came when they started exporting to the UK and making wines from shiraz and cabernet. They have constantly had to pay attention to consumers’ changing wine habits.
The multinational company Accolade Wines owns Berri Estates as well as some fifty other brands/wineries, e.g. Hardys, Banrock Station, Anakena, Lambrini, Houghton, Flagstone, Reynella etc.
Read more: ABC
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