Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

South Australia's wine industry is kicking goals. Our wines are world renowned and a major export industry for the state. Fifty per cent of all wines bottled in Australia come from South Australia and 80 per cent of all premium Australian wines come from South Australia. Boothby is a suburban seat but it's also home to the family owned Patritti wines. Founded in 1926, it produces a range of very nice wines—I recommend the rose—and their cellar door in Dover Gardens, with live music, is very much worth a visit.

We have another wine industry secret in Boothby: the Australian Wine Research Institute at the Waite Campus of the University of Adelaide. I recently toured this facility and saw students at work learning how to make wine and the research labs where scientists isolate the compounds that produce specific flavours and analyse the impact of smoke taint. But the most interesting part of their work is the development of the NOLO industry: no-alcohol and low-alcohol wines. They are working to make these products' taste and texture indistinguishable from good quality wine—not like water plus additives. I have no doubt they'll get there and will open up yet another great export industry for Australia. We know that the demand, both across Australia and overseas, for no-alcohol and low-alcohol wine is just growing. Many thanks to Managing Director Mark Krstic.