Comments on: USA becomes the biggest wine consuming country! We’re #1!!!

By: Wine Today » Blog Archive » Prohibition of persistent taste bad [Ken Burns]

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:25:34 +0000

[...] saw the first episode (available here online) entitled” A Nation of drunks, “which chronicles the social and political forces [...]

By: Prohibition’s lingering bad taste [Ken Burns] | Dr Vino's wine blog

Prohibition’s lingering bad taste [Ken Burns] | Dr Vino's wine blog — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:14:02 +0000

[...] For many wine consumers, the selection suffers and prices are higher at the same time wine has become more popular than ever. I get into more details in my book; I hope Burns can highlight these lingering effects; he paid no [...]

By: Congressional Wine Caucus sips under the radar | Dr Vino's wine blog

Congressional Wine Caucus sips under the radar | Dr Vino's wine blog — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:14:13 +0000

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By: Terroirist » Daily Wine News: Less than Macedonia

Terroirist » Daily Wine News: Less than Macedonia — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:43:10 +0000

[...] week, Dr. Vino reported that the U.S. had become the “biggest wine consuming country in the world!” Alder Yarrow puts [...]

By: Aditya

Aditya — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:28:09 +0000

I personally believe my recent achievement of 100 grapes definitely played a part

By: Wine Cooler

Wine Cooler — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:32:19 +0000

Hmm, I’ve switched to wine folks, one more vote for europe! *de-corking-bottle-sound* =)

By: Check the links… | Pure Spontaneity

Check the links… | Pure Spontaneity — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:52:54 +0000

[...] We’re Number 1. [...]

By: goodeatsbykmuir

goodeatsbykmuir — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:18:15 +0000

Glad to see someone else is excited about the wino movement in America. Very cool stat!

By: Todd - VT Wine Media

Todd - VT Wine Media — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:25:40 +0000

Cheers!
I know that here in VT we are doing our part per capita, but there are not so many of us!

By: Lavender Blue Wines

Lavender Blue Wines — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:14:10 +0000

Yeah! So excited about this report! Now let’s go for production as well!

By: Daniel Kelada-EWS/MC

Daniel Kelada-EWS/MC — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:15:11 +0000

Ahhh… That makes since now. I see my mistake. I didn’t convert my milliliters into gallons correctly. Your right, it is 2.3 gallons/case not 9. What a careless mistake, hence me not being a math expert.

I agree that the report does not discuss explicitly per-capita consumption or production but in order to get a full picture of what is really going on in the U.S compared to the rest of the world you have to look at these numbers in addition to consumption as well as import/export numbers. Being the number one consumer is definitely a step in the right direction for the U.S wine industry, it really shows our potential for growth. In addition, it shows that wine is being consumed by people who typically haven’t drank wine in the past as their primary libation; not to mention that people who have always drank wine regularly are consuming more wine now.

As far as the Vatican, with a population of 800 or so they are the largest per-capita consumer of wine in the world at 59 liters/person/year= 15.5 gallons/person/year.

Thank Morvino for the correction.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:27:45 +0000

I want to know what’s going on in the Vatican- that’s a LOT of sacramental wine!

By: Terroirist » Daily Wine News: Balanced Pinot

Terroirist » Daily Wine News: Balanced Pinot — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:04:08 +0000

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By: Emil H

Emil H — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:12:34 +0000

Congratulations – I’ve been trying to do my part for Europe, but you guys are difficult to beat

FYI: Italy doesn’t have great access to online wine purchasing either – at least you guys have wine.com (which seems good enough to me)

By: morvino

morvino — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:09:40 +0000

Okay Daniel, let’s see. each case is 9 liters. therefore each case is about 2.4 gallons. So we consumed 2.4 x 330 million = 792 million gallons. I have no idea how you equated the US having produced 2.9 billion gallons as a result. Did I miss that? (I mean it, I’d like to know)

The larger point is… production has absolutely zero to do with consumption. So what if we produced 600 or 700 million gallons? Production numbers have absolutely nothing to do with this claim. Neither does per capita for that matter, unless you phrase it so. In terms of absolutes, we consume more cases than France. And by the way, if this report uses the metric “cases shipped” what’s wrong with that? It applies the exact same metric across the board, France included. I fail to see the gist of your argument here. But I’m always up for learning more. Please explain.