Australia's wine production fell significantly last financial year, according to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The total grape crush for 2009-10 was 1.6 million tonnes, down by 7.5 per cent on the previous year.
The area of bearing vines fell to 152 thousand hectares and the yield dropped to 10.1 tonnes per hectare.
The crush produced 1.1 billion litres of beverage wine, down by 3.4 per cent on last years figure.
Red/rosé wine production was 613 million litres (down 1.7 per cent) and white wine accounted for 498 million litres (down 7.4 per cent).
However, exports of Australian wine rose 4.8 per cent (to 789 million litres) and domestic sales rose 4.7 per cent to 471 million litres.
The 13 largest winemakers crushed a total of 1.2 million tonnes of grapes or 72 per cent of the total crush.
These 13 businesses averaged 89 thousand tonnes each.
Conversely, the 95 smallest winemakers accounted for only 0.7 per cent of all grapes crushed and averaged 120 tonnes each.
A third of all winemaking locations were in South Australia, accounting for 43% of the national wine grape crush.
