ABOUT THE ASVO
Established in 1980, the ASVO has a long and distinguished history within the Australian wine industry, playing a critical role in leading the professional knowledge development, through running cutting-edge technical viticultural and winemaking seminars around topical industry issues, networking industry professionals, holding the key triennial Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference in partnership with the Australian Wine Research Institute and in the publishing of the world’s highest ranked peer-reviewed viticulture and wine scientific journal, the Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
THE AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
• The ASVO Viticulturist of the Year Award
– this award is proudly sponsored by Bayer CropScience and aims to honour an outstanding viticulturist involved in the development of a novel and significant viticultural innovation or the introduction of a novel viticultural practice over the previous five years;
• The ASVO Winemaker of the Year Award
– this award is proudly sponsored by ASVO and aims to recognise a winemaker within the industry who has demonstrated technical mastery over various aspects of winemaking;
• Best Viticultural Paper of the Year Award
• Best Oenology Paper of the Year Award
– these awards are proudly sponsored by the Australian Grape and Wine Authority and utilises an industry/science based panel to honour the authors of the respective viticultural and oenology papers where the potential application of the research to industry is deemed the most significant.
The Viticulturist of the Year award is proudly sponsored by Bayer CropScience
Bayer CropScience was established in Australia in August 2002 after Bayer Crop Protection – a pioneer in crop protection since 1892 – acquired Aventis CropScience, one of the world’s leading forces in crop protection, environmental science and bioscience. Thanks to our heritage, and Australian farmers’ heritage of innovation, Bayer CropScience has a strong local presence, with extensive and impressive product offerings in insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and seed treatments. We have pioneered many of the most important advances in crop protection and offer what is arguably the most comprehensive list of crop protection and production products in Australia