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Australian wine exports to Canada increase in volume and value

In 2017–18, the volume of Australian exports to Canada increased by 11 per cent, to 7.6 million cases, and value increased by 7 per cent to $199 million.

Canada is Australia’s fourth biggest export destination by volume and value.

Exports grew by value to all ten provinces. More than 80 per cent of Australian wine by value is shipped to three provinces – Québec, British Columbia and Ontario.

British Columbia was the stand-out with volume up by 29 per cent and value up by 12 per cent.

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Québec, Ontario and British Columbia are also the three largest provincial wine markets in Canada with a combined volume share of 82 per cent.

Québec is the biggest provincial wine market in Canada with total sales of 18.9m cases.

In 2017–18, wine sales grew by 5 per cent, driven predominantly by imported wines from France, Italy, Spain and Australia.

Australia is the fourth ranked wine category behind France, Canada, and Italy.

Australian exports to Québec increased by 2 per cent in volume and 9 per cent in value in 2017–18.

There was growth in both Australian bottled and unpackaged exports, but the growth was significantly stronger in unpackaged exports.

The average value of bottled exports increased marginally to $5.39 per litre, while unpackaged exports increased by 16 per cent to $1.02.

Exports of red and white wines grew, but the growth was much stronger for whites.

Red wine exports increased by 5 per cent to $28m while whites increased by 18 per cent to $15m.

There were 78 Australian companies exporting to Québec during the year – up from 65 the year before.

Ontario is the second biggest provincial wine market in Canada with total sales of 15.8m cases.

In 2017–18, wine sales grew by 2 per cent with wines from Italy, the United States of America and Canada the key growth categories.

Australia is the fourth ranked category behind Canada, Italy and USA.

Australian exports to Ontario increased by 11 per cent in volume and 3 per cent in value in 2017–18.

British Columbia is the third biggest provincial wine market in Canada with total sales of 8.5m cases sold.

In 2017–18, sales were flat in British Columbia with growth in wines from Canada and Italy offsetting declines from most other suppliers such as USA and Argentina.

Australia is the fourth ranked supplier behind Canada, USA and Italy.

Australian exports to British Columbia increased by 29 per cent in volume and 12 per cent in value in 2017–18.

 

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