How does Australia rank in the various quality segments of the world’s wine markets?

Getting a sense of the importance of each country in global wine markets has never been easy. Volume and value data are available for exports and imports, but globally only with a long lag. Data on volume of production are easily available only for the main producing countries. Consumption data are in even shorter supply, and they typically refer only to retail sales rather than pre-tax wholesale prices. Most sources are focused only on total wine, possibly separating out sparkling from still and, in the case of trade data (obtained from the United Nations‟ Commodity Trade Statistics at http://comtrade.un.org), bulk from bottled