The Great NZ Wine Scam?

by Matt Watson — last modified 2008-06-24 09:27

24 June 2008

So…I’m browsing through the April/May copy of Gourmet Wine Advertiser magazine recently (aka Gourmet Traveller Wine), when I notice something that I’m really struggling hard to understand.

Can someone please explain to me why - when the Australian dollar is so strong and the New Zealand dollar is worth the equivalent of two small pebbles and a piece of used string - bottles of NZ wine are far more expensive in Australia than they are in New Zealand?

Why for example are we paying AU$37 (NZ$40) for a bottle of 2007 Seifried Riesling in Australia when you can pick it up for AU$14 (NZ$18) back in New Zealand (and that’s not an isolated example).

Has Gourmet Wine Advertiser got it wrong? Are we really paying that much more tax on our wine than the Kiwis? Is it all being transported over by a single Maori canoe?Or are we simply being ripped off?

What’s going on!!!

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Posted by H. Clark at 2008-07-07 12:03

I agree, it's a disgrace. Why is the NZ dollar so weak? The NZ economy is going far better than Australia's. Yeah, you lot are in the middle of a resources boom, but what about our sheep!

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Posted by WC at 2008-07-08 05:51

Nice one, Hulun, ay?