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 2021-22 Wine Production Sales and Inventory Report indicate that Australian wine production in 2021-22 can be estimated as just over 1.3 billion litres (145 million 9-litre case equivalents), a 12 per cent reduction compared with 2020–21 but 4 per cent above the 10-year average.
Red wine is estimated to make up 55 per cent of production compared with 58 per cent in 2020–21.
The responses to the PSI Survey indicate that total sales volume of Australian wine in 2021–22 can be estimated as 1.06 billion litres (118 million 9-litre cases), a reduction of 100 million litres (9 per cent) compared with 2020–21, and 14 per cent below the national average for the past 10 years of 1.23 billion litres. Domestic sales were reported to make made up 41 per cent of total sales but declined by 7 per cent in volume, while exports made up 59 per cent and declined by 10 per cent.
Production is estimated to have exceeded sales in 2021–22 for the second year in a row.
Responses to the survey suggest the inventory of Australian wine as at 30 June 2022 can be estimated to be 2.3 billion litres, an increase of 167 million litres (8 per cent) compared with the same time last year, and above the 10-year average of 1.84 billion litres.
Ongoing transportation issues have caused reported difficulties in getting wine to market. Compounding this was the further impact of a reduction in sales that added to wine production capacity constraints for wineries

About the survey

Wine Australia’s Wine Production, Sales and Inventory Survey is sent to the top 50 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, IRI MarketEdge, Dept of Agriculture and Water Resources (Levies unit), Winetitles and the Wine Australia export database.