Victoria Angove (ILF2015) & Richard Angove (ILF2020)
One of Australia’s oldest family-owned wine companies is ready to jump back into the once lucrative Chinese market after three years of punishing tariffs, but admits it’s just one part of a broader response needed to address the deep crisis facing growers and producers across Australia’s inland regions.
Angove Family Winemakers has deep roots in South Australia’s Riverland region, which accounts for more than a quarter of the nation’s annual grape crush, but has been among the hardest hit regions amid a growing glut of red wine.
The fifth-generation wine and spirits company, established in 1886 by Dr William Thomas Angove, previously sent about 10 per cent of its exports to China, before Beijing slapped tariffs of up to 218 per cent on Australian wine at the end of 2020 as trade tensions between the two countries -escalated.