Red wine production up, white wine down

Red wine grape production increased by five per cent across the 2015 vintage, compared to the 2012 vintage, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS figures also showed that white wine grape production decreased by two per cent over the same time period, to an estimated 764,000 tonnes. Katie Hutt from the ABS said: “We estimate that there were 86,600 hectares of red wine grapes in 2015, accounting for 64 per cent of all wine grape vines in Australia.