The inclusion of research projects will be in addition to the traditional focus on study-based travel.

Wine Tasmania industry development and extension officer David Sanderson will help to choose the recipient of the $10,000 fellowship, along with four other panelist.

Mr Sanderson said the panel would be looking for a study tour or research program that was innovative and would assist the Tasmanian wine sector to become more environmentally and financially sustainable.

"Tasmania's a very small part of the Australian wine sector and it's quite unique, we're the largest geographical region but one of the smallest production regions," Mr Sanderson said.

"We're exclusively cool climate and we're also producing exceptionally high-value product - our fruit is the highest valued fruit in Australia.

"The Tasmanian wine sector is also expanding, and what we really need is help for our current and future grape growers and winemakers to not only produce the best possible product but do it in an environmentally responsible way."

Past recipients of the fellowship have visited other winemaking areas such as New Zealand, France's Champagne and Burgundy, and parts of the US.

"They've gone to other cool climate regions ... having a look at production systems, having a look at how people approach the different problems they have, and also having a look at why they are successful as well," Mr Sanderson said.

■Potential applicants for the 2015 fellowship are invited to provide an expression of interest. More information is available from Wine Tasmania.