State by state consumption

[kingcabernet]

Hi ya all, I need you guys to tell me where on the net I can find the latest figures which list wine consumption by state. By this I mean a website or such that will tell me which state is #1 in wine consumption in the US and so forth. I just want a page that will tell me what percentage (%) of market share that each state has.

[wondersofwine]

Welcome to the board, king. I would like to help you but it is easier to find wine consumption stats by nation than by state. Even though I work in a library I have limited time for researching non-job related info. Maybe kcwhippet who works part-time in the business will know a source.
My guess would be that wine consumption is higher in California (and perhaps Oregon and Washington) and in metropolitan areas like Washington, DC, Boston, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is probably lower in the Bible Belt where some religions frown on all alcohol (Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, etc.) Then the heritage for some citizens may be beer rather than wine (Wisconsin and other states with German-American or Czech populations, etc.) It would be interesting to see factual data and I'm sure it exists. Just not sure how accessible it is or whether it is collected and sold to the industry.

[kingcabernet]

Thanks for the amazingly quick reply wondersofwine. Actually, you are right the information seems to be sold to the industry but I just simply want to know the market share, percentagre wise, per state for the most recent year in which there are results.

[winoweenie]

Seems like more and more lately our site is being used as a freebie information access for people accumulating info that can be used in profitable dissimation of the information. What is the reason you need the state by state consumption? It's obvious the top 10. The middle 20 are more nebulous and the bottom 32 have very little concern except for research. Just musing. WW

[Kcwhippet]

Try www.winebusiness,com. The info is there somewhere.