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— InDaily 2024

Unico Zelo is selling Australia to the US, not just wine

Unico Zelo cofounder Brendan Carter has plenty going on, including blind tastings for a new canned product and selling his Australian wine into the US without ‘selling out’.

— Meininger's International 2024

YouTube Is the Way to Attract Younger Audiences to Wine

Brendan Carter can’t understand why so many wine professionals are ignoring YouTube. He tells Felicity Carter how he built his own Wine for the People channel.

— The Guardian 2023

Fun, fresh and fairly cheap: sommeliers’ 12 favourite Australian summer wines under $30

The prosecco is chilled, the riesling is crisp, and a next-gen Canberra winemaker is bringing cab sav back – these are the Australian wines to buy this season

— Glam Adelaide 2023

3 South Australian wines make Jamie Oliver’s exclusive favourites list

Guided by renowned wine sommelier Matt Skinner, Oliver’s adventure led him to discover some of the most exceptional wines the country has to offer.

— Wine & Spirits 2021

Wineries to Watch 2021

Based in the Adelaide Hills, they focus on bright, refreshing wines from varieties that are gaining more local attention, like nero d’Avola and barbera, fiano and greco. It was their nero from Riverland, Fresh A.F., that caught us off guard this year.

— Decanter 2020

2020: Lockdown stories – view from the vines

As our lives and horizons suddenly closed in around us, growing more limited in the year of Covid-19, it was perhaps difficult to appreciate what other people ‘out there’, elsewhere in the world, were experiencing and feeling. Peter Richards MW spoke to winemakers in six different nations to find out how they and their teams coped as events developed

— InDaily 2020

Emerging Industry and Creative Thinker winners talk success

Cofounder of beverage startup Team Unico Brendan Carter has been pushing the company towards sustainable practises. Last week, the pair were named Emerging Industries and Creative Thinker winners atInDaily’s40 Under 40 Awards for their work in the finance and hospitality sectors respectively.

— CityMag 2019

Laura Carter of Unico Zelo wants to expand what you understand about ‘sustainability’ in wine

Sustainability isn't all dirt and vines for this winemaker. This is Laura Carter’s fifth vintage under the Unico Zelo banner and things are going just great.

— South China Morning Post 2017

Couple’s quest for the most Australian of wines begins with Italian grapes

Unico Zelo wines benefit from the ‘unique passion’ of their creators for fruit and terroir, as well as for workers’ rights thanks to their profit sharing model

— Decanter 2017

Australia: hot winemakers and cool wines

Can Australia be hot and cool at the same time? Definitely! Hot because its creative artisan and young gun winemakers have taken the wine scene by storm, enticing sommeliers, bar owners and new crowds to Aussie wine. And excitingly cool thanks to a bunch of winemakers tapping into a growing demand for wines from coastal and higher altitude sites.