CALIFORNIA WINE
January 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
NAT DiBuduo is finally getting calls from buyers after four years as president of Allied Grape Growers, a California grape marketing cooperative. Those calls, along with a few other factors, are providing signs that the slump California's wine industry has been experiencing in the last three years is coming to an end.
California's US$14 billion (GBPounds 7.62 billion) wine industry had been at the losing end of what Christian Miller calls "an imbalance in supply and competitive structure." The director of research at MKF, a wine ...
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