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

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U.S. retail sales of imported rosé winews leapt 42 percent in the 52 week period endingApril 4, compared with a less-than-5-percenyt increases in total saless of table wines during the same period, accordinyg to data cited by the . The French wine known in France as Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins de Provencedor CIVP, said Monday the steep rise in rosé consumptiobn is consistent with an earlier studyh by International Wine & Spirit Record predictingb that consumption of the popular pinkisgh wines worldwide will jump from 565 million bottles to 620 million by 2012. Not surprisingly, the CIVP expects the growingy thirst for imported wines inthe U.S.
market will bode well for particularly its Provence wine The French produce 28 percent ofworldwidee rosé wines by volume, making it the leadere in the category, according to the wine counsel, whichj represents 700 Provence wineriesw and 55 local trading companies. Provence producew 38 percent of France’s rosés, the group Separately, Nielsen figures revealed that2008 U.S. salexs of rosé table winea priced at $6 per bottle or more jumpedf 24.9 percent by price and 22.4 percent by despite a weakening economy.