Databases

by Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen, September 2020

The book entitled 'Which winegrape varieties are grown where? A global empirical picture (Revised Edition)' is a unique compendium of data on winegrape bearing areas by variety and region. In its first edition it drew on the Anderson and Aryal database of December 2013, which covered 48 countries for the years 2000 and 2010 in detail plus less-complete national data for circa 1990, 1980, 1970 and 1960. That database and book have since been revised, expanded and updated to 2016. The first version of the book was awarded the 2014 OIV Prize from the Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin for the best viticulture book published in 2013. It was downloaded more than 100,000 times by end-2018. The revised version is downloadable as a free ebook from the University of Adelaide Press here or by clicking the red button below. It is also purchasable as an 800-page print-on-demand paperback from online bookstores such as Amazon. The grey button below allow free access to the data and files from Box, on which the ebook drew. The blue buttons below allow downloading the data in Excel directly. 

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^{Citation for database: Anderson, K. and S. Nelgen, Database of Regional, National and Global Winegrape Bearing Areas by Variety, 1960 to 2016, Wine Economics Research Centre, University of Adelaide, September 2020 (slightly revised May 2021).}

^{Citation for book: Anderson, K. and S. Nelgen, Which Winegrape Varieties are Grown Where? A Global Empirical Picture (Revised Edition), Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2020. Freely available as an ebook. A softcover print-on-demand version can be purchased from Amazon.}

by Kym Anderson and Vicente Pinilla (with the assistance of A.J. Holmes), November 2017, revised and updated August 2024

The motivation to assemble these historical annual data was to learn more about wine’s globalization, and to publish a revised version of our Global Wine Markets statistical compendium (see citation at bottom of this page). Some of the world’s leading wine economists and historians have contributed to this database, and have drawn on it to examine national wine market developments before, during and in between the 19th century and current waves of globalization. Their initial analyses cover all key wine-producing and wine-consuming countries using a common methodology to explain long-term trends and cycles in national wine production, consumption, and trade. Those analytical narratives are available in 'Wine Globalization: A New Comparative History', edited by Kym Anderson and Vicente Pinilla (Cambridge University Press, January 2018). The grey button below allows downloading the data and files from the ebook by Anderson, K., S. Nelgen and V. Pinilla, 'Global Wine Markets, 1860 to 2016: A Statistical Compendium', University of Adelaide Press, 2017. The blue button below allows downloading the data in Excel directly. The red button below allows downloading the ebook. 

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^{Citation for database: Anderson, K. and V. Pinilla (with the assistance of A.J. Holmes), Annual Database of Global Wine Markets, 1835 to 2023, freely available in Excel at the University of Adelaide’s Wine Economics Research Centre, August 2024.}

^{Citation for book: Anderson, K., S. Nelgen and V. Pinilla Global Wine Markets, 1860 to 2016: A Statistical Compendium, Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2017. Freely available as an ebook. A softcover print-on-demand version can be purchased from Amazon.}

Since the 1950s, the consumption of alcoholic beverages has changed very considerably around the world. In high-income countries, consumers tended to drink mostly what could be best produced domestically (spirits in the cold north, wine in temperate climates, and beer in many countries including those too cold for winegrapes yet warm enough to grow malting barley). With increasing globalization and interactions between cultures, however, countries are converging in their beverage consumption patterns. In emerging economies, meanwhile, much of their alcohol was produced at home and not recorded, but that too is changing with their urbanization and income growth.

          This new database covers all countries of the world, introduces two new summary indicators to capture the extent of convergence in national alcohol consumption levels and in their mix of beverages, and distinguishes countries according to whether their alcoholic focus was on wine, beer or spirits in the early 1960s as well as their geographic region and their real per capita income. For recent decades expenditure data are included and we compare alcohol with soft drink retail expenditure, and show what difference it makes when WHO estimates of unrecorded alcohol volumes are included as part of total alcohol consumption.

Download Part I: OECD alcohol consumption, 1950 to 2015

Download Part II: Detailed alcohol consumption indicators, 2001 to 2015

Download Part III: Summary alcohol consumption indicators, 1961 to 2015

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^{Citation: Holmes, A.J. and K. Anderson, Annual Database of National Beverage Consumption Volumes and Expenditures, 1950 to 2015. Wine Economics Research Centre, University of Adelaide, July 2017.}

Our book entitled 'Growth and Cycles in Australia's Wine Industry: A Statistical Compendium, 1843 to 2013' draws on a compilation of annual data on the economic history of the development of the grape and wine industry in Australia. The grey button below allows downloading the data and files from the ebook, and the red button allows downloading the ebook. A softcover print-on-demand version can be purchased from Amazon. The blue buttons below allow downloading the data in Excel directly.

Download Section I: Grape and wine production, consumption and trade since 1843

Download Section II: Regional grape and wine developments from the late 20th century

Download Section III: Winegrape varietal developments since the mid-1950s

Download Section IV: Macroeconomic and international data since the early 1800s

Download Section V: Regional varietal area, production and price data, 1999 to 2013

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^{Citation for database: Anderson, K. and N. Aryal, Australian Grape and Wine Industry Database, 1843 to 2013, Wine Economics Research Centre, University of Adelaide, February 2015.}

^{Citation for book: Anderson, K. (with the assistance of N. Aryal), Growth and Cycles in Australia’s Wine Industry: A Statistical Compendium, 1843 to 2013, Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2015. Freely available as an ebook. A softcover print-on-demand version can be purchased from Amazon.}

On April 23, 2024, Professor Kym Anderson AC delivered a presentation at an AARES-SA event titled 'Crisis in Australia’s Wine Industry: Origins, hiccups, and ways forward'. The light-blue button below allows watching Professor Anderson's analysis, followed by a stimulating discussion by Professor Julian Alston.

Crisis in Australia’s Wine Industry: Origins, hiccups, and ways forward

See also:

No. 2024-01 Anderson, Kym. Australia’s Wine Industry Crisis and Ways Forward: An Independent Review, WERC Working Paper 2024-01, University of Adelaide, July 2024.

The vigneron’s choice of winegrape varieties to grow depends on many things, both physical (terroir) and economic. Both opportunities and competitive challenges abound for producers seeking to attract the attention of consumers by differentiating their product, or alternatively by emulating the most successful producers. One strategy for producers to attract consumer attention has been to display names of (especially popular) grape varieties on wine bottle labels. Its success, particularly for popular lower-priced New World wines, has led to regulators in the European Union acceding to some degree to demands for a freeing up of labelling laws so as to allow such labelling there. As well, producers in the New World are increasingly realizing the marketing value of going beyond country of origin to regional labelling as another form of product differentiation – something that has long been practiced by Europe’s traditional producers. Meanwhile, producers everywhere are well aware of the impact climate changes (higher temperatures, more extreme weather events, …) are having on the quality their winegrapes and on vineyard yields and production costs. Adaptation strategies include switching to warmer-climate or more-resilient grape varieties, and re-locating to a region at a higher latitude or elevation to retain the current mix of grape varieties in their portfolio. Especially in the New World, where regions are still trying to identify their varietal comparative advantages and where regulations do not restrict varietal choice, winegrowers are continually on the lookout for attractive alternative varieties that do well in climates similar to what they expect theirs to become in the decades ahead.

          To see how those various forces are affecting plantings in Australia, and to be able to analyze those trends, we have put together a time series of winegrape data for Australia and its various wine regions. As of September 2023 we have compiled data for 23 vintages from 2001 to 2023 for 75 wine regions of Australia. The Excel file also includes national varietal data going back to 1956.

NOTE: When downloading the data from Box (by clicking on the grey button below), the last column of the 'INDEX' table (2^nd sheet) shows links to each table. Clicking on 'Go to Sheet' takes the user to the table directly. 

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It is also possible to download the data directly by clicking on the blue button below. However, this database does not have an index with links that take the user directly to the different sheets/tables.

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^{Citation for database: Anderson, K. and G. Puga (2023), Database of Australian Winegrape Vine Area, Crush, Price and Per Hectare Volume and Value of Production, by Region and Variety, 1956 to 2023, Wine Economics Research Centre, University of Adelaide, December. https://economics.adelaide.edu.au/wine-economics/databases}

For a summary and description of this database see Wine Brief No. 73: 

Anderson, Kym and German Puga. Two Decades of Grape Variety Trends in Australian Wine Regions , WERC Wine Brief No. 37, February 2023. Since published in Wine and Viticulture Journal 38(2): 65-72, Autumn 2023.

by Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen

The Wine Economics Research Centre has produced various  revisions and updates of its global wine market statistics. The latest version was updated to 2016 and backdated to 1860 in Anderson, Nelgen and Pinilla (November 2017). The preceding version, 'Global Wine Markets, 1961 to 2009: A Statistical Compendium' is still available. The grey button below allows downloading the data and files from the ebook from Box. The red button allows downloading the ebook. The blue buttons below allow downloading the data in Excel directly.

Download I: Global wine markets, 2007-09

Download II: Wine markets by country: annual data and growth rates, 2000 to 2009

Download III: Wine markets by country: 5-year data and decadal growth rates, 1961 to 2009

Download IV: Wine bilateral trade, country by region, 1990 to 2009

Download V: Wine bilateral trade, country by country, 2009

Download VI: Value shares of national and global wine markets, by quality categories, 2009

Download VII: Wine and other alcohol consumption and import taxes, 2008

Download VIII: World rankings of top 20 wine countries by various indicators

Download IX: Summary data for each country and region: annual data, 2000 to 2009

Download X: Pre-World War II historical data, 1675 to 1938

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^{Citation for database: Anderson, K. and S. Nelgen, Database of Global Wine Markets, 1961 to 2009, Wine Economics Research Centre, University of Adelaide, March 2011.}

^{Citation for book: Anderson, K. and S. Nelgen, Global Wine Markets, 1961 to 2009: A Statistical Compendium, Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2011. Freely available as an ebook.}

Over the two decades each side of the new millennium, the Australian wine industry went through a remarkable period of export-oriented growth. The vineyard area in Australia trebled over the 20 vintages to 2008. Today, nearly two-thirds of Australia's production is exported and production itself increased nearly four-fold. Moreover, the average price of wine exports more than trebled in nominal terms over that period. Meanwhile, domestic consumption of wine has become more focused on higher-quality offerings. This export-led growth and quality upgrading, assisted by marketing efforts of wineries as well as ‘Brand Australia' generic promotion abroad, has added remarkable wealth and vitality to many rural regions of Australia and it has also altered the characteristics of production.

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This database for Argentina has been produced using an adapted version of the code used to produce the ‘Australian Winegrape Vine Area, Production and Price Database, by Region and Variety, 1956 to 2023’. It is based on data published by the Argentinian Grape and Wine Observatory.

NOTE: When downloading the data from Box (by clicking on the grey button below), the last column of the 'INDEX' table (2^nd sheet) shows links to each table. Clicking on 'Go to Sheet' takes the user to the table directly.

Download data from Box

It is also possible to download the data directly by clicking on the blue button below. However, this database does not have an index with links that take the user directly to the different sheets/tables.

Download data directly

^{Citation for database: Puga, G. and K. Anderson (2024), Database of Argentinian Winegrape Vine Area, Crush, Price and Per Hectare Volume and Value of Production, by Region and Variety, 2002 to 2022, Wine Economics Research Centre, University of Adelaide, March. https://economics.adelaide.edu.au/wine-economics/databases}