Wine drinking statistics

[Thomas]

Wine Institute can help, but mainly they have figures for California (possibly Washington and Oregon too); they compare those figures with what are reported regarding imports.

Most of the rest of the US wine industry does not rate the interest of those in the so-called know. I assume that consumption of wine that was produced in the rest of the US mainly goes unreported in national figures. For each state's figures you have to contact each state's wine governing or promotion arm.

Any national tally that comes from a promotion arm such as the Wine Institute is likely to be skewed, a polite way for saying spun.

Maybe the NY Times, or some such place, can come up with the closest answer.

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 01-17-2002).]