Australian wine exports to China - an overview
• Australian wine exports by volume to China: 153m litres (+54%)
• Australian wine exports by value to China: AU$848m (+63%)
• Australian wine exports to China, average price per litre FOB: AU$5.55 (+6%)
• China is Australia's largest export market and accounts for more than half of Australia’s wine shipments of AU$10 or more per litre FOB, growing by 75% to $377m last year.
• 95% of Australia’s exports by value to China are red wine, up 65% to $804m
• Australia white wine exports to China are up 33% to $30m
• Chardonnay is the number one white wine, with exports to China up 32% to $14m
• Riesling is up 77% to $3m, and Semillon is up 29% to $2m
• The number of Chinese visitors to Australia has more than doubled over the past five years to 1.33m in the year to September 2017