Australians are slowly narrowing the gap between bottled wine and cask wine consumption. The latest domestic figures reveal that in the twelve months to the end of October this year Australians bought 183,434,000 litres of wine in casks against 164,152,000 in bottle. These figures have increased by 1.2% and 6.5% respectively over the year, with bottled white wine sales marginally ahead of bottled red, and white softpack sales just about twice the sales of cask red. Total Australian wine consumption has increased by 3.4% to 425,280,000 litres, with imports remaining relatively static in volume to the end of October.
