2009 News
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| Dec |
Primavera draws the numbers for Granite Belt Spring - A new seasonal brand which was developed by the Granite Belt Wine & Tourism Inc in 2008 to grow tourist traffic during the traditional shoulder spring season is paying dividends. |
| Dec |
Granite Belt Leads Queensland Holidays' Ultimate Auction Online - In the pilot, lot number 168 was a wine and food experience offered by Granite Belt Wine & Tourism (GBWT). This was one of four destination holidays which went to auction beginning on Monday 7 December at 2pm. |
| Nov |
Loyalty Card and Early Christmas Present for GBWT Members - Granite Belt Wine & Tourism (GBWT) will distribute a new loyalty card to its 150 members, encouraging them to do business with others members. |
| Nov |
Cellar Door Pass Launches in Queensland - From this week's Brisbane Good Food & Wine Show, wine lovers can use a smart card to visit the state's premier wine region and purchase some of the Granite Belt's top drops |
| Oct |
Lavender the November Granite Belt Calendar Theme - When producing a 2010 community calendar Granite Belt Wine & Tourism Inc. (GBWT) created a monthly theme to complement what is happening on the local food and wine scene. |
| Oct |
Granite Belt Verdelhos Stand Out in the Crowd - The inaugural Varietal Benchmark Tasting organised by the wine subcommittee of Granite Belt Wine & Tourism Inc. featured Verdhelo's from the Granite Belt and other major Australian production regions, with the local wines outperforming their interstate rivals in a blind tasting. |
| Oct |
Granite Belt Tourism Bucks the Trend - Latest tourism statistics from Granite Belt Wine & Tourism (GBWT) show a far more positive result for the region than data from Tourism Research Australia in their National Visitor Survey for the year ended June 2009. |
| Sep |
New Granite Belt Visitor Guide - The official visitor guide for the Granite Belt was released on Sunday at Southbank, and is the first to be produced by Granite Belt Wine & Tourism |
| Sep |
GBWT appoints new board - The 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Granite Belt Wine & Tourism Inc (GBWT) has elected its new management committee. The line-up includes four returning members and seven newly-elected members. |
| Aug |
Take the road less travelled to the Granite Belt
Tomorrow is the official first day of Spring, a fitting time ot launch a new scenic map to Stanthorpe and the Granite Belt. |
| Jul |
Nude Food Calender - On Sunday 23 August the covers come off on the Nude Food calendar, the latest initiative from the Granite Belt Wine & Tourism Inc. (GBWT), a key ingredient of the At Our Table Function launching the spring Primavera promotion on Queensland's Granite Belt. |
| Jun |
Visitor Guide - Advertising in the official new visitor guide to the Granite Belt Wine Country is so strong that it is in stark contrast to the national trend which is seeing advertising revenue dwindle. This marks a firm endorsement to the Association's decision to self-publish. |
| Jun |
Naked Date - From the coolest place in Queensland that brought you Strange Bird, and then Nude Food, Stanthorpe is about to combine these two quirky identities in a 2010 photo calendar. |
| May |
Strange Bird Re-Lays - It has been 18 months since the Strange Bird emerged from the Queensland wine capital, but this week the flock has expanded. |
| Apr |
Stanthorpe Chamber Warms the Brass Monkey - Stanthorpe Chamber of Commerce and Granite Belt Wine & Tourism (GBWT) are getting into bed together this winter. The purpose of all this familiarity is a little .... |
| Apr |
Stanthorpe's Calling All Culture Vultures> - It's not all food and wine and autumnal colours on the Granite Belt these days, as a peek into the cultural calendar reveals. |
| Mar |
Queensland Vote Goes to the Wire - In the end "Australia" won by the narrowest of margins. The question posed to online pollsters recently was "How should wine from Queensland wine capital be labelled: Granite Belt, Queensland or Granite Belt, Australia" |
| Feb |
Queensland Decides - Queensland politicians may be waiting for exit polls on 21st March, but they'll be pipped at the post by a new survey being undertaken by Granite Belt Winemakers. |
| Jan |
Granite Belt Winery Visitor Spending Ranks in National Top 3 - When it comes to how much visitors spend at the winery cellar door, Queensland's Granite Belt comes home with the bronze medal. |
| Jan |
Granite Belt Vintage News - Vintage, the annual wine grape harvest, is about to get underway in the Queensland wine capital. |
| Jan |
Granite Belt Bucks Trend - A Queensland summer holiday is more than sun, surf and sand as new figures released this week by Queensland's capital of cool confirm. |
