2025 Wine Industry IMPACT Awards (WIIA)
 

Awards' Gala Dinner :
The Evening of Thursday 20th November 2025
Adelaide, South Australia

 

 

Many wine industry award programs are for individuals, or producers / wineries, or regional wines. WIIA is a wine business focused awards program to capture and inspire connection and implementation that delivers IMPACT. Whether entered as a WISA member solely or together with a wine industry partner, WIIA provides the amplified voice to new ideas and collaboration. 

Further details of sponsors and judging panels to be confirmed. 

Benefits of Participation

Participating in the Impact Awards provides a rare opportunity for your business and business solutions to be applauded by the wine industry for excellence and innovation. Details of the awards including award winners are seen by over 2,000 newsletter recipients, 5,500 LinkedIn community members, and over 200 WIIA Gala Dinner guests.

These awards are about highlighting those solutions that are positively impacting the capability and competitiveness of Australia’s grape and wine producers. The nomination process of the awards is a valuable opportunity to review your business, build team morale, and assess your focus squarely on the value that you are delivering to our industry.  

2022 Award Winner: Seguin Moreau
2024 Wine Industry Impact Award Winner: NUKON
Award sponsored by Wine Australia

Key Dates

  • WIIA Entries Open 27 June 2025
  • WIIA Entries Close 29 August 2025 
  • WIIA Judging Complete September 2025
  • WIIA Awards & 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner 20 November 2025, in Adelaide, South Australia

Please click here to view the Terms & Conditions of Awards Entry.

Please note the cost of entry is $250 (incl. GST).
 

Your Submission

WIIA submissions will have thee parts:

  1. Complete the webform with your; contact details, category and co-submitting companies if relevant,
     
  2. The 'elevator pitch' to summarise what you are submitting, what is its compelling proposition, how it created impact, and what should the industry know about the project?
     
  3. Supporting documentation with the details of your submission. 


Include in your submission as applicable:

  • An overview and background,
     
  • The problem,
     
  • The solution to the problem - proof and results,
     
  • How it created industry IMPACT, and
     
  • Supplementary material in support of your submission such as: customer testimonials, trial results, additional explanation of benefits, supportive photographs.

Judging

Each application will be assessed by an independent panel, who will take into account factors as applicable including; the overall value proposition, quality and reliability, environmental sustainablilty, extent of innovation, and overall industry impact.

 

Submission open to members and their project partners (minimum one member per submission)

Please provide your 'elevator pitch' in approximately 200 - 500 words (we recommend writing in a word document and copying and pasting into the text box!)

Please provide contact name(s) and title(s)

This is your time to shine. Tell us how your business made IMPACT to the wine sector.
You submission will be judged on how well you demonstrated collaboration and partnership, ROI, increased performance and efficiency achieved, new market entry or distribution, engagement and uptake, sustainability goals and/or innovative thinking to a problem you solved.
Who from your team was involved? How long did it take?
Convey the benefits to us as you would want the industry to digest it plus confidential sections if you would like to highlight for judges only. Add photos and examples if you can.

Use PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Google docs or Canva and then save as a pdf to upload.

If any problems uploading please email supporting documentation to eo@wisa.org.au