editorial

IF THERE WAS AN ANTI-BUREAUCRACY PARTY I would join it tomorrow. Maybe even today! (Excludes Palmer party).

Rules and guidelines are good but excessive ones are not and should be called out. There seems to be a level of bureaucracy creeping into the wine industry and I don’t like it. Here are some examples;

In October 2018, the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) met and agreed that: “a mandatory labelling standard for pregnancy warning labels on packaged alcoholic beverages should be