date:Apr 10, 2013
kling wine and champagne, shipments reached 17.7 million cases in 2012, up 2 percent compared with the previous year, Wine Institute reports. California sparkling wine grew 3 percent with Moscato-based varieties driving the growth, it says. While overall total 2012 volume slowed after a major surge in 2011, sparkling wine shipments to the United States in 2012 were at their highest level since 1987, it adds.
Overall U.S. wine exports, 90 percent of which came from California, reached $1.43 bill