National winegrape crush declines but still too much

摘要

Australia's winemakers crushed 1.71MT of winegrapes in 2009, 7% less than in the previous year, the recently released annual vintage report by the Winemakers' Federation of Australia (WFA) has revealed. Following its survey of wineries in April to which more than 340 wineries responded, representing an estimated 89% of the industry's winegrape intake, WFA reported the nation's 2009 crush was below the five-year average of 1.79MT, but was still higher than estimated and greater than required to meet current demand.