Australia Joins Ranks of Worlds Biggest Wine Exporters

With almost A$2 billion (US$1.05 billion) in overseas wine sales in 2001, Australia has become the world's biggest wine exporter outside the European Union.

Exports of Australian wine have grown more than sixfold since 1992 to A$1.9 billion in 2001, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The country's major wine destinations were the United Kingdom and the United States in 2001. Canada, New Zealand, Germany and Ireland werethe country's other major wine markets.

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