Australian

Until the late 1970s, Australian wine production consisted largely, but not exclusively, of sweet and fortified wines . Since then, Australia has rapidly become a world leader in both the quantity and quality of wines it produces. For example, Australian wine exports to the US rose from 578,000 cases in 1990 to 20,000,000 cases in 2004 and in 2000 it exported more wine than France to the UK for the first time in history.