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We'll Drink More, But Whose Wine Will It Be?

Posted: Jan 26, 2009 5:20pm ET

Time was I liked to start the day by reading the sports section. These days it’s the front pages and all the business stories that grab my attention. Little of the hard news is heartening. But for the wine business there’s a silver lining in the gloom-and-doom scenarios, and it is this: People are not going to stop drinking wine and, in fact, I expect that the domestic market—you and me and many new converts—will drink as much or more wine this year as last.

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