Statistics

Statistical information from The 2024 Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Directory
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Highlights of 2024

• Australian wine exports increased by 34 per cent in value to $2.39 billion, and by 7% in volume to 643 million litres, in the 12 months ended September 2024.
• Shipments reached the highest levels for both volume and value since the 12 months ended August 2021, with this renewed growth driven by the re-entry of Australian wine exports to mainland China after it removed import duties on Australian bottled wine in late March 2024.
• The value of shipments to mainland China, in the 12 months to September 2024, increased by $604 million to $612 million, while volume increased by 58 million litres to 59 million litres. There were 927 businesses exporting wine to mainland China during the 12 months ended September 2024.
• The Australian winegrape crush increased yearon-year by 9% in 2024 to an estimated 1.43 million tonnes, according to the National Vintage Report 2024 released by Wine Australia.
• Vintage 2024 followed a 23-year low crush in 2023 and, despite the growth, the ‘24 crush is still well below the 10-year average of 1.73 million tonnes.
• The overall year-on-year increase in the crush was 112,000 tonnes, driven entirely by white winegrape varieties, which increased by 117,000 tonnes (19%) to 722,000 tonnes.
• Despite the increase, the white varieties crush was still 10% below the 10-year average and the second smallest in 17 years.
• The crush of red grapes declined by just under 5,000 tonnes (1%) to 705,000 tonnes, the smallest since the drought-affected 2007 vintage, and 40% below its peak of 1.2 million tonnes in 2021.
• The white winegrape share of the crush increased to 51% – the first time since 2014 that the white crush has been higher than the red crush.
• Chardonnay increased by 31% to 333,000 tonnes, overtaking Shiraz to resume the title of largest variety by crush size that it last held in 2013. Shiraz decreased by 14% to 298,000 tonnes – its smallest crush since 2007.
• South Australia accounted for the largest share of the national crush size (49%) but decreased by 4% and lost 6 percentage points of share to the other states.
• All other states except Western Australia increased their crush compared with 2023, with Tasmania increasing by 42% to a record estimated crush of 16,702 tonnes.
• The grape crush value of the 2024 vintage was estimated to be $1.01 billion, a 2% increase over the previous year. This was a result of the 9% increase in the tonnage being offset by an overall decrease in the average value from $642 per tonne to $613 per tonne.

Table 1: Winegrape crush by year

Source: Wine Australia 2024 National Vintage Report
Note: figures may vary from those previously published as data is updated

Table 2: Winegrape production and prices

Source: Wine Australia National Vintage report 2024 and National Vineyard Scan 2019