8504.0 - Sales of Australian Wine and Brandy by Winemakers, Feb 2007  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 04/04/2007   
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FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

Feb 2007
Jan 2007 to Feb 2007
Feb 2006 to Feb 2007
'000 L
% change
% change
Trend estimates
Australian produced wine
Domestic wine sales
38 010
0.4
6.4
White table wine sales
18 273
0.1
3.7
Red and rosé table wine sales
14 041
1.1
11.2
Seasonally Adjusted
Australian produced wine
Domestic wine sales
39 192
2.1
5.4
White table wine sales
19 257
7.5
6.0
Red and rosé table wine sales
14 168
-3.8
5.1

Australian produced wine, Domestic sales
Graph: Australian produced wine, Domestic sales, Seasonally adjusted and Trend

Australian produced wine, Exports - Original
Graph: Australian produced wine, Exports, Original



FEBRUARY KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES

  • The trend estimate for domestic sales of Australian produced wine increased 0.4% in February 2007.
  • The trend estimate for domestic sales of white table wine increased by 0.1% in February 2007. The trend for red and rosé table wine increased 1.1% on January 2007.
  • The trend estimate for other wine remained unchanged from January 2007.


SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate for domestic sales of Australian produced wine was 39.2 million litres in February 2007, an increase of 2.1% on January 2007.
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate for white table wine increased 7.5% on January 2007, while red and rosé table wine decreased 3.8%.
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate for other wine increased 0.4% in February 2007.


ORIGINAL ESTIMATES
  • In original terms, 32.7 million litres of Australian produced wine were sold domestically by winemakers in February 2007, an increase of 33.8% on January 2007 and 5.5% on February 2006.
  • Exports of Australian produced wine in February 2007 increased 31.1% on January 2007 to 67.3 million litres. Australia exported 781.5 million litres with a value of $2.8 billion in the twelve months ending February 2007, an increase of 11.5% in volume and 1.5% in value over the corresponding period to February 2006.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
March 2007 9 May 2007
April 2007 6 June 2007
May 2007 5 July 2007
June 2007 7 August 2007
July 2007 5 September 2007
August 2007 4 October 2007



CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

This issue contains revisions to domestic sales data from July 2006 to February 2007 due to an update in the number of winemaking enterprises that are within the scope of the 'Sales of Australian Wine by Winemakers' collection. For more information, users should refer to paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Explanatory Notes.



DATA NOTES

This issue includes, for the first time, a percentage change table for the domestic sales of Australian wine. This new table is Table 2 in this issue and shows the percentage change from the previous period for the data shown in Table 1. All other tables are the same as presented in previous releases of this publication, except Tables 2-9 have been renumbered 3-10.



ROUNDING

Where figures have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.



INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Damian Sparkes on Adelaide (08) 8237 7425.