Australian Wine Industry Statistics

[Red Bigot]

My copy of "The Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Directory 2005" arrived on Thursday. I haven't had time to read a lot yet, but a few figures:

Number of wineries: 1,899 (up from 1,798 and there are quite a few small makers missing from the detailed section as well, so I'd guess at over 2,000 wine producers now). NZ only increased from 457 to 458 after a big jump from 386 the year before.

2004 Vintage tonnage: 1,065,879 red grapes, 794,473 white grapes, a 38% and 42% increase respectively on the 2003 vintage, no wonder there is a glut of young red wine. NZ vintage tonnage jumped by over 100% compared to 2003!

Wine stocks: Stocks rose by 17.2% to 1,854 million litres, 59.8% of that is red/rose, an increase of 17.8%.

Biggest producers (branded wine):: Hardy's jumped to top spot over Southcorp, followed by Orlando-Wyndham, McGuigan-Simeon, Casella Wines, Beringer Blass, de Bortoli, McWilliams, Yalumba and Angove making the top 10.

World production: Australia is the 7th largest producer of wine, after france, Italy, Spain, USA, Argentina and China and a fairly distant 4th in the export stakes behind Italy, France and Spain.

[Serge Birbrair]

Australians are one of the best at marketing their wines abroad.

[Guest]

RB

is the bible worth getting for the wine buff

NN

[GrahamB]

RB

is the bible worth getting for the wine buff

NN

Naw, look for a later edition. The wines here could be 2000 years old.

Graham

[Red Bigot]

RB

is the bible worth getting for the wine buff

NN

Naw, look for a later edition. The wines here could be 2000 years old.

Graham

NN, the Directory is full of dry facts, industry adverts and lists of wineries (with statistics, winemakers, contact details, web site etc.), brands and personnel. I find it useful and refer to it several times a week looking up winery details etc. Around $100, so up to you whether it's value or not.

[Neville Nessuno]

RB and Graham B

Thanks for tha advice - sounds like the earlier version is more useful after all for all matters vinuous!

Cheers

Neville

[SueNZ]

Number of wineries:
NZ only increased from 457 to 458 after a big jump from 386 the year before.

NZ wineries only increased by 1? Over what period? Methinks there is something wrong there.

Number of winery stats, according to the 2004 NZ Winegrowers Annual Report June 2004, pg. 21, were
2004 total - 463,
2003 total - 421,
2002 total - 398,
2001 total - 380,
2000 total - 358.

Still growing. Will probably top 500 by end June 2005.

Cheers,
Sue