WINETECH Technical Yearbook 2019

PHOTO 2. The wall depicting the history of the Australian wine industry.

PHOTO 3. The rows of grapevines at the National Wine Centre of Australia. This Centre provides tourists with the opportunity to experience the wine industry in the city without having to go into the wine producing regions. Wine Centre is popular with tourists as it is located centrally in Adelaide and they can taste wines and enjoy lunch. One can also do accredited wine education courses at the Centre. ANU KUMAR, PRINCIPAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST, CSIRO LAND AND WATER Anu Kumar is located at CSIRO Land and Water at the Waite Campus in Urrbrae. There are a number of research institutions based at this campus. In particular, the Waite Campus is the hub of the South Australian wine industry in Adelaide and funders, researchers and educators are located in close proximity to each other (Photo 5). It was evident that bore water (Photo 6) and reclaimed water (Photo 7) were being used for irrigation on the campus.

PHOTO 4. The grapevine rows at the National Wine Centre are irrigated during summer. Note the handy tap to flush the irrigation lines.

PHOTO 5. Key role players in the South Australian wine industry are located in close proximity to each other. Note the koala bear sign in the background. component of the research that the group does is focused on tracking and identifying pollutants; isolating pollution sources; assessing impacts of aquatic and terrestrial pollution to ecosystems; developing cost- effective and robust monitoring systems; and developing water management guidelines and practices. The research group has a very comprehensive laboratory to do toxicology studies (Photo 9). PAUL GRBIN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN OENOLOGY, SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND WINE , UNI VERS I TY OF ADELAIDE The meeting took place at the winery (Photo 10) of the University of Adelaide. Although the university currently has no research projects investigating the treatment

At this stage, Anu Kumar (Photo 8), who leads the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Team within the Environmental Contaminant Mitigation and Biotechnologies Program at CSIRO, is not doing as much work with winery wastewater as in the past. However, the research group is still continuing with their long-term project investigating the use of winery wastewater for vineyard irrigation at Yalumba Winery in the Barossa Valley. This project has already been conducted for seven years, so important long-term information is being generated. Although obtaining funding for research pertaining to winery wastewater is currently a challenge, there are exciting opportunities for research on fire fighting chemicals, using sewage water for golf course irrigation and wastewater from mines. A large

PHOTO 6. Sign indicating the use of bore water at the Waite Campus in Adelaide.

the Australian wine industry. When the First Fleet arrived in Sydney on 26 January 1788, Governor Philips planted seeds of grapes and rooted cuttings from South Africa. The Australians started research into grapevines in 1929. The National Wine Centre also has some rows of grapevines (Photo 3), which are irrigated (Photo 4) in summer. The National