James Busby Travel

31/10/2021

01/09/2021

The annual James Busby Travel newsletter is NOW OUT!!!
(We skipped a year, did anyone notice?)
We kick started 2021 with a complete redesign of the James Busby Travel website, along with an accompanying article on Indigenous acknowledgment published in Australia's Wine Business Magazine (WBM) In this issue you'll also find news of what our Alumni Community (now 158 wine trade professionals in 14 different countries) have been up to, with plenty of baby pics, puppy spam and a bunch of questionable wine memes. We look at the great 2021 vintage, the not-so-great import tariffs in China and forward to the next Busby trip...2023! Plus an unmissable Tom Cardy video. So pour yourself a large glass of Pfizer Fizz, better make it a double shot, sit back and enjoy.
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23/10/2020

We’d normally be half way through the annual James Busby Travel tour by now. In fact right now, on October 23rd, we'd be at Bests Great Western, walking through the 1868 Pinot Meunier vines, drinking Foudre Ferment Riesling with a bush BBQ and with every guest being given a bottle of wine from their birth year, no upper limit!

We''d be enjoying the warm weather and even warmer hospitality of over fifty family owned wineries across Victoria and South Australia as the Busby bus covers 2000km on our annual road trip of a lifetime. Like so many things this year our annual tour has been cancelled but despite it being a “fallow year” we’re not letting the grass grow under our feet. Australia’s borders may remain closed for the foreseeable future, but we’re looking at ways of running a viable tour in 2021, albeit in a slightly different guise. We’ve also been working behind the scenes to rethink our project from the ground up, to redesign the website and refocus the emphasis of our visits and messaging to improve awareness and respect of the history, culture and stories of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Our original mission statement from 2010 remains the same today, to change attitudes towards Australian wine one bottle at a time. By introducing the current generation of wine buyers to the very best in classic and cutting edge wine in the contemporary Australian landscape. The friendships forged on the bus became the unexpected outcome from the trips and have become its enduring legacy, resulting in an Alumni Community that stands at 158 individuals from 14 different countries.

I thought I’d spread some positive vibes today by sharing memories from the last ten years of Busby tours. Ten photos from each trip, making a total of 120. There’s plenty of great wine, fun times, beloved colleagues and friends no longer with us, there’s the squid fishing, the bowling, the cycling, the competitive catapulting, the surfing, the vineyards, the air guitars, the punting, the cellars, the sunsets, the big Aussie skies, the kangaroos, the koalas and one seriously badass wombat

We’ll come back stronger next year, refreshed, reenergised and with a renewed sense of mission and purpose. In the meantime I’d encourage the Alumni to post their favourite photo or memory. Grab your wombat, pour a drink and let the good times roll!

15/01/2020

22/10/2019

Sunrise squidding

22/10/2019

We’re on!! Team Harves gets first ink

22/10/2019

LET’S SQUID!! Dawn squidding crew at Aldinga Beach with Captains

22/10/2019

Beautiful warm evening for supper on the back deck talking nebbiolo and tannin

22/10/2019

Steve talking climate appropriate varieties

22/10/2019

WE’RE IN THE VALE! 1st stop with We’ve barely been in the Vale an hour and here we are tasting (drinking) Koomilya Temp / Touriga

22/10/2019

Busbys In the HOG

22/10/2019

Bojan - loves a selfie 📸😆

22/10/2019

Although the Henschkes have always been conscientious with their bio-security to prevent the spread of phylloxera, we’ve certainly seen a significant increase in bio-security measures across Victoria and South Australia on this Busby trip

22/10/2019

Prue talking deep sands, ancient soils, composting and old vines

22/10/2019

Hello Hill of Grace

22/10/2019

Fascinating tasting with Reid and Sacha going vertical and horizontal on their top 3 single vineyard wines across 2017, 2012 and 2006 with Old Vine Shiraz, Alte Reben Shiraz and Old Bastard Shiraz

21/10/2019

Semillon for breakfast

21/10/2019

WOMBATTED!! Mr Johnson loves his tawny

21/10/2019

Bojan shows us how to KEGEL at the Tanunda Kegel Bahn with

21/10/2019

BOWLED OVER! Good times at the Tanunda Kegel Bahn with

21/10/2019

CYMBLAGE! First for the Busby trip demonstrates the art of cymballing a sparkling shiraz

21/10/2019

Lunch with the better looking half of 😀 🌈 🦄💥

21/10/2019

In the six level gravity flow winery built in 1888 and now fully operational again since 2010. In wine terms of wine, history and heritage it’s the equivalent of raising the Titanic

21/10/2019

Mr Johnson needs a quick coffee fix before his tour of

21/10/2019

Look how hard Al is working hanging with Dave “Yetti” Geyer from for a guerrilla hay bale tasting (with local pies from

21/10/2019

Andrew awarded the “itchy corkscrew finger” award as he treated to a stellar line up and crack open session of the estates top wines

21/10/2019

Deep dive on soil pits at The Laird vineyard

20/10/2019

Beautiful morning for our second day in the Barossa. First stop The Laird vineyard

20/10/2019

Grenache Giant

20/10/2019

Marco in the vines

20/10/2019

Marco explaining his unique basket pruning technique amongst his 1848 Grenache. 10 acres, 5500 vines, planted in 1848 on pure white beach sand

20/10/2019

B**G TOSS SLOOOMOOOO

20/10/2019

B**G TOSS! First for a trip

20/10/2019

Bojan loves a selfie 🤣👍