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Treasury Wine Estates is reducing its shipments to the US and China to regain control over supply and pricing.

The end of the boozy Chinese banquet hits Australia’s largest winemaker

The $4 billion Treasury Wine Estates has suspended its interim dividend and cut its shipments to the US and China to regain control over supply and price.

  • Jessica Yun

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Sales of Penfolds in China have continued to deteriorate.

Penfolds maker’s profits set to plunge on China, US weakness

Australia’s biggest winemaker, Treasury Wines, is grappling with major issues in two of its most important markets.

  • Dominic Powell
Treasury Wine Estates began making its own China-made version of Penfolds as part of a new strategy when China imposed harsh tariffs on Australian exports.

Penfolds panic: China slump spells trouble for Treasury Wines

The company has been savaged by investors, and its stock now is near a 10-year low amid signs that its premium brand is losing its mojo in the Chinese market.

  • Supratim Adhikari
Wine is our premium product in China.

Aussie wine’s back in China, but there’s a catch

China has become a catastrophe for global winemakers, but Aussie vintners think they can buck the trend.

  • Colin Kruger
A South Australian rock lobster cooking demonstration at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai on November 5.

Trump’s touted tariffs threaten to sweep up Aussie lobsters

Many economists are concerned a new trade war between the world’s two biggest economies will have flow-on consequences for Australia.

  • Lisa Visentin
Demand for Victorian food and fibre has surged in Singapore.

These countries have made Victoria Australia’s biggest exporter of food and fibre

Rising demand from Asian countries has propelled exports in this category to almost $20 billion, making Victoria number one in the nation.

  • Kieran Rooney
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Anthony Albanese has revealed he will head to Beijing on November 4, after confirming a deal that will end Chinese tariffs on Australian wine has been struck.

Australia reaches wine deal with China, PM sets dates for Beijing trip

Australia’s long-running dispute with China on wine tariffs is close to ending ahead of a trip to Beijing by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

  • Shane Wright, Carolyn Webb and Amelia McGuire
Rotting chardonnay grapes in 2005: Australia is once again grappling with a wine glut.

Wineries call for more government support as Chinese tariffs roll on

The Australian wine industry is seeking more assistance in finding new markets for wine as the nation grapples with a two-year oversupply.

  • Jessica Yun
Winegrape grower and Riverina Winegrape chairman Bruno Brombal on his property in Hanwood, NSW.

Even if China lifts its wine tariffs, Aussie grape growers have already been squeezed dry

China’s hefty import duties have inflicted deep scars on the local wine industry and triggered an oversupply that could fill 859 Olympic pools.

  • Jessica Yun
Hunter Valley winemaker Mark Davidson, from Tamburlaine Organic Wines, said the market would be slow to recover.

A slow recovery: Growers set sights on removal of China’s wine tariff

Wine producers are optimistic China’s wine tariff will be the next to be removed following the backdown on barley, but warn sellers will be cautious about an overreliance on the Chinese market.

  • Amber Schultz and Paul Sakkal