California Wine: A $45 Billion Industry

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Daniel Sogg
Issue: September 30, 2004

Despite the recent economic downturn, an oversupply of wine and an increase in competition from overseas, California's wine industry generated $45.4 billion of economic activity within the state in 2002, according to a study commissioned by the Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers.

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