About the report

The Australian Wine: Production Sales and Inventory Report presents the results of the annual Wine Production, Sales and Inventory Survey, conducted by Wine Australia. The report aims to provide an overview of the current supply and demand situation for Australian wine.

The report includes the latest national statistics on:

• the Australian winegrape crush
• wine production
• domestic sales
• Australian wine exports
• total Australian wine sales and,
• inventory (along with inventory-to-sales ratios).

The report is updated annually, once that year's survey results are available.

Report summary

The results of the 2022-23 Wine Production Sales and Inventory Report indicate that Australian wine production in 2022-23 was an estimated 946 million litres (107 million 9-litre case equivalents), the lowest since 2006–07 and the first time since then that wine production in Australia has fallen below 1 billion litres.

Red wine is estimated to make up 54 per cent of production compared with 55 per cent in 2021–22 and 58 per cent in 2020–21.

The responses to the PSI Survey indicate that total sales volume of Australian wine in 2022–23 were 1.07 billion litres (118 million 9-litre cases), almost identical to the sales figure for 2021–22, and 13 per cent below the national average for the past 10 years of 1.22 billion litres. Domestic sales increased by 1 per cent to 444 million litres, while exports declined by 1 per cent to 621 million litres. Domestic sales made up 42 per cent of total sales.

Sales exceeded production by 100 million litres, making 2022–23 the first time that sales have been higher than production since 2019–20. 

Inventory of Australian wine as at 30 June 2023 is estimated to be 2.2 billion litres, a decrease of 4 per cent compared with the same time last year, and above the 10-year average of 1.9 billion litres.

Global conditions remain very challenging, due to declining wine consumption and a prolonged oversupply of wine putting increasing pressure on all wine-producing countries. 

About the survey

Wine Australia’s Wine Production, Sales and Inventory Survey is sent to the largest wineries based on grape crush size. Responses are received from around 30 wineries accounting for at least 75 per cent of total Australian wine production. Other data sources used include: ABS, Circana (formerly IRI MarketEdge), Growth Scope, IWSR, Levies Revenue Service, OIV, Winetitles and Wine Australia.