The World's Palates Love the Wine of Australia

Australia has a great reputation for wine growing the world over. Our usage of French style grapes together with the variety of different soils and climates make Australia a wine makers dream. But enjoying our wine and our wine reputation, how many of us really know the wine of Australia? The Buy Wine Online team have snuffled out a few interesting facts and interesting tidbits about the red wine, white wine and sparkling which makes Australia great.

As a new world wine producing country, we have come a long way since the European settlers packed them for their journey on the first fleet. Interestingly, even though our soil and landscape and climate have had a major role to play in the Australian wine industry's difference in the world wine market, many attribute our success to our isolation. Our wine making to a certain extent was geared around servicing our local population, and so whilst the rest of the world's makers battled out with other countries, Australia quietly went about the business of producing this product to suit our palates, diet and market needs. On some level, the Australian wine industry developed not caring what anyone else thought.

Names such as the Barossa Valley, The Coonawarra, Hunter Valley and Margaret River became household names through both wine export from Australia and a push from critics.  Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Semillon and Chardonnay started popping up all over the place with Australian addresses and whilst it was a difficult market to crack, soon the Europeans and Americans were crying out for Australian wine on a regular basis. Australia now has the broadest range of wines of any country in the New World.

Australia often produces high end quality products under the same label as more price conscious products. It is not uncommon for a cask wine to be made by a winery which can also scoop the awards pools and charge hundreds of dollars per bottle in Australia, an approach which bemused many of those used to the European model of name association dictating wine quality. Our wine growers are not ashamed of sharing grapes across region either, with many of the larger wine companies taking advantage of the widespread geographic locations made for wine making in Australia and sourcing the best possible red or white grape varieties and blending them. We also enjoy such good production areas that there is sufficient high end quality grapes year in and year out to release single region wines.

There are almost two thousand wineries in Australia spread across most of the country. We are considered one of the top ten wine producing nations of the world, and our volume of wine production averages 1.4billion litres of wine annually. Our industry employs almost 30,000 people in a variety of roles and generates hundreds of millions of dollars for the Australian domestic and export economy. The world has come to know the wine of Australia as a quality product with sensational choice and value and has made Australia a popular destination for wine buffs the world over.

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