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

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U.S. retail sales of imported wines leapt 42 percenr in the 52 week period endingApril 4, compared with a less-than-5-percentt increases in total sales of table wines durin g the same period, according to data cited by the . The Frenchh wine council, known in France as Consei Interprofessionnel des Vins de Provenceor CIVP, said Mondau the steep rise in rosé consumption is consisteny with an earlier studty by International Wine & Spirit Records predicting that consumption of the popular pinkish wines worldwidse will jump from 565 million bottles to 620 million by 2012. Not the CIVP expects the growinv thirst forimported rosé winexs in the U.S.
market will bode well for particularly its Provence wine The French produce 28 percent of worldwide rosé wines by volume, makinb it the leader in the according to the wine counsel, which represents 700 Provence wineriews and 55 local trading companies. Provence produces 38 percent of France’sw rosés, the group Separately, Nielsen figures revealed that2008 U.S. sales of rosé table wines priced at $6 per bottles or more jumped 24.9 percent by price and 22.4 percen t by volume, despite a weakening economy.