retallack viticulture pty ltd

Retallack Viticulture is an independent viticultural consultancy. We offer a broad range of advisory services in all aspects of viticulture and agribusiness. Specialties: • All aspects of viticulture (technical and extension), • Environmental stewardship, biodiversity enhancement, native insectary plants, • Integrated pest management, • Biosecurity (endemic and exotic) surveillance and reporting, • Agribusiness development, financial benchmarking, • Court appointed expert reporting (independent expert), • Alternative Dispute Resolution (mediation, expert determination, arbitration), • Loss assessment, independent fruit quality assessment, • Project management, development of education and extension materials, • Strategic planning, • Mentoring, capacity building, investing in individuals. Recent high impact work: Environmental stewardship: Development of an ‘Environmental Management Plan for the Adelaide Hills Wine Region’, extension materials ‘Enhancing Biodiversity in the Vineyard’, ‘Vineyard Biodiversity and Insect Interactions’, workshop presentations ‘An introduction into the role of ecosystem services for vineyards’, ‘Evaluating native insectary plants to boost beneficial arthropod populations in vineyards’, and review of the Sustainable Australia Winegrowing (SAW) program’s biodiversity module. Biosecurity: Author of a ‘Desktop review: to inform a national approach to grape phylloxera management (GPM)’. Financial benchmarking: Author of ‘Updating Vineyard Cost of Production Data for the Murray Valley Wine Region for Season 2008/09’, ‘Economic benchmarking for the Murray Valley wine region - Season 2010/11 and 2013/14’. Contract negotiation: Development of ‘A guide to negotiating the sale of wine grapes in the Barossa’ which formed the basis of ‘A guide to negotiating the sale of wine grapes in South Australia’. Numerous technical knowledge transfer and extension activities.