date:Apr 10, 2013
ports, California wine shipments to all markets in the United States and abroad reached 250.2 million cases in 2012, he says.
The U.S. is the largest wine market in the world with 19 consecutive years of volume growth, said Robert P. Koch, president and chief executive officer of Wine Institute, San Francisco, in a statement. Competition for retail shelf space and consumer attention is intense, so California's high-quality, record wine grape harvest in 2012 could not have come at a better time.