Global bulk wine market keeps sliding as China’s bulk wine import mix shifts sharply

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Commentary

The continued slide in the global bulk wine market, and the sharp shift in the structure of China's bulk wine imports, may look like macro data points, but they bear directly on how small and mid-sized New Zealand wine exporters manage stock and channel strategy. Bulk wine is a commodity base wine, so its price is driven by global supply and demand. Oversupply in the main producing countries — Spain, Italy and Chile — combined with falling total wine consumption in Europe, China and elsewhere keeps bulk wine prices under pressure.

New Zealand bulk wine, with its high production costs, already holds only a limited share of the price-sensitive Chinese bulk import market, and any further fall in average prices would squeeze export margins even thinner. On the other side, the reshaping of China's bulk wine imports may mean a reordering of source countries and varieties. In the past, Chinese bulk imports came largely from Spain and Chile for lower-end bottling or blending.

Consumption tiering and brand-building at home may now generate demand for particular varieties — New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc bulk wine, for instance, could be used to build mid-to-high-end domestic bottled products and sidestep price competition. Smaller New Zealand producers should compare their bulk export varieties against the direction of change in China's import mix and assess whether to move bulk wine from a stock-clearing tool to a supply of distinctive base wine, while using the zero-tariff advantage under the China-New Zealand free trade agreement. They should also watch non-tariff barriers such as Chinese rules of origin verification and health certificates for bulk wine.

Those that stay with bulk should consider more flexible supply agreements with Chinese bottlers, locking in quality specifications and price adjustment mechanisms to avoid defaults or stock build-ups as the market structure changes.

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