Sales of imported ros wines leap 42 percent - Sacramento Business Journal:

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U.S. retail sales of imported wines leapt 42 percentt in the 52 week period endingApril 4, comparec with a less-than-5-percent increases in tota l sales of table wines during the same period, according to data citerd by the . The French wine council, known in France as Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins de Provence or said Monday the steep rise in consumption is consistent with an earlier studuy by InternationalWine & Spirit Recor predicting that consumption of the popular pinkish wined worldwide will jump from 565 million bottles to 620 million by 2012. Not the CIVP expects the growing thirsf forimported rosé wines in the U.S.
markegt will bode well for particularly its Provencewine region. The French produc 28 percent ofworldwide rosé wines by making it the leader in the according to the wine which represents 700 Provence wineries and 55 local tradingy companies. Provence produces 38 percent of France’s rosés, the group Separately, Nielsen figures revealec that2008 U.S. sales of table wines priced at $6 per bottle or more jumped 24.9 percentf by price and 22.4 percent by volume, despite a weakeningt economy.