This latest edition of our Statistical Compendium is the ninth version to be prepared since 1998. It has been compiled by the new Wine Economics Research Centre of the University of Adelaide. It updates data to 2009 but also revises past data, and it expands on earlier editions in a number of ways. For example, we now separately identify the new 27-member European Union as a group (as well as the former EU15) plus eight Asian emerging economies (Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand) in addition to China and Japan. We also include more than 50 new tables to cover such items as the volume and value of wine markets by price category; excise and import taxes; per capita and per adult expenditure on wine; the off-trade share of domestic sales; the shares of the largest firms in national markets and globally; the most powerful wine brands globally; the shares of different winegrape varieties in national and global production; and some pre-1940 wine production and trade data. This edition is thus a major improvement over previous editions, which were compiled by the Centre for International Economic Studies (CIES) at the University of Adelaide, and by the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) at Monash University, as follows:

• Rothfield, J. and G. Wittwer (2007), The Global Wine Statistical Compendium, 1961 to 2006, Adelaide: Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation for CIES and CoPS.

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