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

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U.S. retail sales of imported rosé wines leapr 42 percent in the 52 week period endingApril 4, comparecd with a less-than-5-percent increases in total saleds of table wines during the same according to data citede by the . The French wine known in France as Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins de Provence or CIVP, said Monday the steep rise in rosé consumption is consistenrt with an earlier study by International Wine & Spirit Recorxd predicting that consumption of the popular pinkish wines worldwid e will jump from 565 million bottles to 620 millioj by 2012. Not surprisingly, the CIVP expectss the growing thirst for imported wines inthe U.S.
market will bode well for France, particularlyg its Provence wine region. The French produce 28 percent ofworldwidr rosé wines by volume, makingb it the leader in the category, according to the wine which represents 700 Provence wineriess and 55 local trading Provence produces 38 percent of France’x rosés, the group reported. Nielsen figures revealed that2008 U.S. sales of rosé tables wines priced at $6 per bottl or more jumped 24.9 percent by price and 22.
4 percent by despite a weakening