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We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!

On 23 Sep, 2013 By Bulk Wine News With Comments Off

It’s official. The U.S. is now the largest wine market in the world, drinking up some 13 percent of all the wine produced globally, while wine consumption in such venerable bastions of wine-drinking as France and Italy is on the decline. What are we drinking? Chardonnay, and lots of it. Almost twice as much Chardonnay as the next most-popular wine,…

California Wines Cracking the Chinese Market

On 15 Jun, 2013 By Bulk Wine News With Comments Off

With a booming economy and an estimated 19 million consumers of foreign wine (and the potential for many millions more), China is high up on the list of desirable markets for California wine. To tap even further into that vast market, two delegations of California vintners this spring made week-long trips to major Chinese cities to promote the state’s wines,…