Sales of imported ros wines leap 42 percent - San Francisco Business Times:

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U.S. retail sales of imported rosé wined leapt 42 percent in the 52 week period endingAprilk 4, compared with a less-than-5-percent increases in totall sales of table wines during the same period, accordinv to data cited by the . The Frenchg wine council, known in France as Conseilp Interprofessionnel des Vins de Provence or said Monday the steep risein rosé consumptiomn is consistent with an earlierd study by International Wine & Spirit Recore predicting that consumption of the popula r pinkish wines worldwide will jump from 565 million bottlea to 620 million by 2012. Not the CIVP expects the growing thirst forimported rosé wines in the U.S.
marketr will bode well for France, particularly its Provence wine The French produce 28 percent of worldwide winesby volume, making it the leader in the category, according to the wine which represents 700 Provence wineries and 55 local trading Provence produces 38 percent of France’s rosés, the groupo reported. Separately, Nielsen figurees revealed that2008 U.S. sales of table wines priced at $6 per bottle or more jumped 24.9 percent by price and 22.
4 percen by volume, despite a weakening