{"id":52733,"date":"2025-09-30T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52733\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:26:08","slug":"new-zealand-winegrowers-reports-bumper-2025-harvest-with-exports-up-5-by-volume-but-value-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52733\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Winegrowers reports bumper 2025 harvest with exports up 5% by volume but value down"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 90% of the wine produced in New Zealand was exported to more than 100 countries.<\/p>\n

Shipments to China grew 47% to $56m, while exports to South Korea lifted 92% to $44m.<\/p>\n

Overall exports to second-tier markets, excluding the UK, USA and Australia, which together accounted for 70% of exports, rose 17% in the past 12 months to just under $600m.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to market researcher IWSR, lighter refreshing styles are outpacing overall wine category performance,\u201d Yukich said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shift is driven by varietals<\/a> with more refreshing palate profiles, which New Zealand excels in delivering.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he said, the industry was facing a number of challenges<\/a>, with uncertainty around the long-term impact of tariffs on demand for New Zealand wine in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the increased tariffs have been in place since April, with a further increase in August, it is not yet possible to discern the effect of these in the export data.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2025 vintage was unusually large, with positive weather conditions bringing warm, dry days and cool nights, producing a high-quality harvest, though a lot of grapes were left on the vine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Zealand Winegrowers chief executive Phillip Gregan said the grape yield was exceptional, with the volume far exceeding the industry\u2019s ability to process it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe weather was so fantastic for grape-growing that [the] crop was really once-in-a-generation,\u201d Gregan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no way we were ever going to be able to harvest all those grapes. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t have had the capacity in our wineries. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo there\u2019s still plenty of our wine available to grow sales over the last [year].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 90% of the wine produced in New Zealand was exported to more than 100 countries. Shipments to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,28848,18658,3013,3595,6097,3214,8594,117,111,43,139,21353,69,45125,766,810,32561,45127,45126,102,80],"class_list":["post-52733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-28848","tag-bumper","tag-but","tag-by","tag-down","tag-exports","tag-harvest","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nona","tag-nz","tag-pelletier","tag-reports","tag-up","tag-value","tag-volume","tag-winegrowers","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}