(Aussie) Wine exports $2.8bn in 2005/6

The Australian ^ | January 29, 2007

[Dundee]

THE value of Australia's wine exports rose to $2.8 billion in 2005/06, new figures show.

The 2 per cent increase on the previous year comes as more Australian wine than ever is consumed locally and overseas.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures released today showed 722 million litres of wine was exported in 2005/06 - eight per cent more than the previous year.

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The United Kingdom imported $946 million worth of Australian wine, some 36 per cent of the overall export market.

The next largest export targets were the US ($864 million) and Canada ($246 million), the ABS said.

[endthematrix]

UK wants to drink and spend more. UK has been a great sales market...except for France!

[ccmay]

Dear Aussie friends,

I have been holding up my end when it comes to sopping up the ocean of fine wine you have poured over the world. Keep up the good work.

-ccm

[fish hawk]

I pleasantly discovered Aussie wines about ten years ago. I knew then they were going to be a big hit in the future. I'm a red wine drinker so I haven't really tried a lot of their whites. Go Aussies, between you and a few South American countries, you are ruining France, and that's a good thing.

[singfreedom]

....And I've done my part. Hardy's Whiskers Blake is the one I drink the most of, however. I'm enjoying a glass right now and will be ordering another case tomorrow! Great stuff!

I haven't drunk anything French in YEARS and try to avoid anything European anymore---the German white wines are the only ones that I miss any at all.

[ccmay]

Hardy's Whiskers Blake is the one I drink the most of, however. I'm enjoying a glass right now and will be ordering another case tomorrow! Great stuff!

For the money, that is the best tawny port in the world.

I like the Yalumba Museum Muscat also.

-ccm

[sushiman]

How times have changed ! From Monty Python :

Monty Python's Flying Circus -
"Australian Table Wines"
[ from the album Monty Python's Previous Record, 1972 ]

The Players:
Eric Idle - Wine Expert;
The Scene:
Soft introduction music plays .....

---

WINE EXPERT:
A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: eight bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

[Caipirabob]

Nice work, good wine.

[randita]

Ten years ago, Aussie and Kiwi wine were great bargains and I bought a lot of it. It's still pretty reasonable, but as its popularity has increased, so has the price. Same with Chilean and Argentinian wine - price has gone up a lot.

I still head to the U.S. wine displays first, CA, WA, OR. Haven't bought French wine in years.

I'm not super picky and rarely spend over $10/bottle except for a special occasion.

[Dutch Boy]

I drink Black Opal Shiraz from time to time. It's cheapish $5.99 to %6.99 and bottle to bottle consistancy is very good. It didn't have a high rating but I don't care.

On a wine tour I once asked what makes a good wine. The tour guide responded with "The one you like." I've had some highly rated wines that tasted nasty and some lower rated wine that was absolutely yummy. I keep track in a wine log with my own rating system. I can never taste all the things that other can taste in a wine. I simply go by; Do like it? and rate it -2 (tastes like kerosine) to +2 (so good I think about the next day). It's a cheesy system but it keeps me from buying a nasty wine a second time.

[1rudeboy]

free trade ping

[where do I usually see that?]

[aculeus]

Wal-Mart has drinkable Aussie wine at $3.64 per bottle. Brand "Bancroft".

[aculeus]

God bless the wine glut!

[joebuck]

I'm not a wine drinker but I'll support anything that puts a crimp in France's economy. Go Aussie wine!

[N. Theknow]

Congrats to anyone who has found an Australian wine they like. I am still searching.

[RipSawyer]

The tour guide responded with "The one you like."

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Makes sense to me! I have far too much backwoodsman in my soul to drink something I hate just so I can be "in with the in crowd".

[Dutch Boy]

I also like Rabbit Ridge Shiraz. Others might not.

[LIConFem]

Ditti that!

Yellow Tail Shiraz bump!

[July 4th]

Australian wines are great, and it's such a good range that's being produced. I've seen $50 bottles and $3 bottles, and all of them are drinkable. On the cheap end, it's only real competition in the US is from the "Charles Shaw" brand (a Californian wine) affectionately known as "Two Buck Chuck." Although, it's actually about $3 per bottle in most places now.

[Mase]

[where do I usually see that?]

Heheh. Usually being sent to folks who are no longer with us.