期刊名称：Discussion paper / Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide
电子版ISSN：1445-3746
出版年度：2009
卷号：2009
期号：1
出版社：Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide
摘要：Over the past two decades, the Australian wine industry has been through a
remarkable period of export-oriented growth. Even when vines for drying and table
grapes are included, the vineyard area in Australia has trebled over the 20 vintages to
2008, the biggest surge in Australia’s history (Figure 1). In the first half of the 1980s,
barely 2 percent of the country’s wine production was exported, which was less than
the volume it imported. Today, nearly two-thirds of Australia’s production is exported
(Figure 2) – and production itself has increased nearly four-fold since the early 1980s.
Moreover, the average price of those exports has more than trebled in nominal terms
over that period (Figure 3(b)). Meanwhile, domestic consumption of wine – which
also has grown – is becoming more focused on higher quality offerings too: prior to
the mid-1990s, less than one-third of domestic wine sales were in bottles of smaller
than 2 litres, whereas by 2007 bottles accounted for more than half of domestic sales –
and more than two-thirds of the volume of export sales (ABS 2008). During this
decade the average price of domestic sales has crept slightly ahead of the average
export price (Figure 3(c)).
