Wine Australia has released its five-year Strategic Plan 2025–30, outlining how it will support Australian grapegrowers, winemakers and exporters in navigating current pressures while building a more resilient, profitable and sustainable future.
Wine Australia recently hosted a successful inbound visit by five Japanese on-premise professionals as part of its ongoing efforts to grow the profile of Australian wine in Japan.
The Australian grape and wine sector is being called to rally behind an exciting new message that reframes how domestic consumers connect with Australian wine.
The message is clear, powerful and proudly local: ‘We make a wine for that.’
The Australian grape and wine sector is being invited to take part in Wine Australia’s annual customer engagement stakeholder survey between 2-30 June, to help enhance the services and programs it delivers to empower the success of Australia’s grape and wine businesses.
Australia’s winegrape growers can now access a series of free, practical guides designed to support vineyard management with minimal ongoing intervention and promote long-term ecological practices.
London and Edinburgh were abuzz this month with more than 1000 people flowing through the doors of Wine Australia’s annual Australia Trade Tasting across the two cities.
The United Kingdom (UK) is the third largest importer of wine in the world and is the biggest destination for Australian wine exports by volume.
In the January edition of Exporter News, we discussed potential labelling changes that would be needed for wine sent either to the United Kingdom (UK) and/or the remaining European Union (EU) members once the UK left the EU.
In our last Exporter News, we provided advice on how to indicate the details of the importer on a wine label once the United Kingdom (UK) has departed from the European Union (EU).
Mid-winter in Australia is not usually associated with the vibrancy and excitement of the wine season at its full height – our vines are dormant, preparing spring and a fresh vintage in the summer.
On 1 August 2023, wine sold in the United Kingdom started being taxed on the level of alcohol in the product, rather than by volume. This has already had an impact on the level of alcohol in wine sold in the UK, including Australian products. This Market Bulletin will give an overview of the duty changes and how they are already impacting on exports and retail sales.
The United Kingdom is Australia’s number one export market by volume and Australian wine is well known in the market, especially in the off-premise. As such, Australian wine’s performance in the market is closely tied to the large-scale factors impacting the market – such as inflation and declining disposable income, increasing alcohol duties, and declining wine consumption per person. Wine Australia’s newly released UK Market Update report provides a detailed analysis of these trends for current and prospective Australian wine exporters. This Market Bulletin will highlight key parts of the report.
Together, the Nordic markets of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden represent 30 million litres of Australian wine exports – about 5 per cent of the volume exported in the 12 months to June 2024. As wine markets around the world adjust to consumer trends and spending, the Nordic markets are not immune and this Market Bulletin will highlight some of these latest trends.
Denmark and Sweden are the sixth and fourteenth largest export markets respectively for Australia by volume, making them important to total export performance. This Market Bulletin will highlight the latest trends impacting wine consumption in these two countries, and how they compare to Australia’s other key markets.
In last week’s bulletin, we examined South Korea, a wine market ranked as the second most attractive in the world, according to the Global Compass 2020 published by Wine Intelligence. This week we delve into another growing market, Poland.