Grape Industry Analysis for Investment and Redevelopment

WHITE wine grapes
5.1.2 Hectares of bearing and non-bearing white wine grapes
Figure 12 shows the area (hectares) of bearing and non-bearing (less than three years old) white
wine grape varieties from 1997 to 2014.
Planting of white wine grape varieties has slowed considerably since 1997. Only 2% (230 ha) of
white wine grape plantings were non-bearing in 2014, compared with 24% (2,530 ha) in 1997.
Figure 12: Hectares of bearing and non-bearing white wine grape varieties 1997 to 2014
1997 (ha) 2003 (ha) 2006 (ha) 2009 (ha) 2014 (ha)
Variety
Nonbearing
bearing bearing Nonbearing
Non-
Non-
Nonbearing
bearing
bearing
bearing bearing
Chardonnay 1,228 1,802 3,635 2,149 5,608 1,831 6,278 136 5,142 3
Chenin Blanc 42 2 49 1 40 0 34 0 12 -
Colombard 341 105 734 315 995 51 890 127 660 -
Crouchen 24 0 37 6 42 5 41 5 45 -
Doradillo 61 1 26 0 11 0 7 0 2 -
Fiano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 -
Frontignac 11 0 1 0 2 9 9 0 14 -
Gordo 1,166 114 869 216 875 229 805 340 832 18
Muscat Canada 25 1 11 0 8 22 22 35 52 -
Muscat other 26 4 46 2 48 0 44 93 126 6
Other white 3 22 0 9 3 8 3 7 2 4 5
Pinot Grigio/Gris 0 0 0 38 37 532 574 253 801 6
Riesling 130 0 112 5 109 45 120 5 82 -
Sauvignon Blanc 67 31 125 30 145 368 485 407 826 10
Semillon 22 325 446 34 436 99 499 35 470 5
Sultana 4,652 145 2,094 86 1,092 4 174 0 58 -
Traminer 5 0 1 12 12 0 12 0 12 -
Verdelho 1 0 63 4 67 0 67 16 60 4
Vermentino 0 0 2 2 4 0 5 16 24 -
Viognier 0 1 10 55 62 68 127 11 97 -
Waltham 52 0 18 0 11 0 3 0 1 -
Not surveyed* 172
Total white hectares 7,877 2,530 8,287 2,958 9,612 3,265 10,204 1,505 9,342 230
% bearing/non-bearing 76% 24% 74% 26% 75% 25% 87% 13% 98% 2%
*Not surveyed: 75% (172 hectares) of non-bearing white wine grape varieties are unrecorded for
2014; hence 2014 non-bearing areas have not been extrapolated. All other figures have been
extrapolated with over 80% of varieties recorded.
3 Other white wine varieties include: Arneis, Flora, Italia, other Italian varieties, Malvasia, Palomino,
Prosecco, Savignin, Taminga, Tokay Friulilo and Verdejo.
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