The 2012 New Zealand grape collect is down 18 per cent on final year due to a cold open and summer.
About 269,000 tonnes of grapes were harvested in a 2012 season, down from a record 2011 collect of 328,000 tonnes, New Zealand Wine Growers pronounced after completing a selected survey.
The 2012 collect was approaching to be smaller than final year, pronounced Philip Gregan, arch executive of New Zealand Winegrowers.
“The 2012 selected is really identical in distance to 2010, though given sales expansion in a past dual years, a reduced stand will broach a new tragedy to a sectors’ supply direct balance,” Mr Gregan said.
Earlier booze growers had pronounced one of a misfortune summers in decades had threatened a collect in some regions as a grapes were delayed to ripen.
Mr Gregan pronounced that while a progressing open and summer was cool, Apr was a vicious branch indicate for a vintage.
“Going into collect a regard among growers and wineries was either autumn would broach a continue a grapes indispensable to develop fully.
“Fortunately in many of a flourishing regions Apr saw glorious selected conditions with many comfortable dry days and cold nights.”
An deluge of grapes in new years has been a problem for a attention and booze exporters have also suffered from a impact of a high New Zealand dollar.
Listed booze association Delegat’s Group pronounced in a 2011 annual news that a record 2011 selected was expected to outcome in a attention supply imbalance prevalent for during slightest another dual years.
“The supply imbalance has manifested itself in high levels of discounting and a fast growth
of low cost bulk booze exports to 4.8 million cases, accounting for 28 per cent of attention exports by volume,” a association said.