Sales of imported ros wines leap 42 percent – Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

U.S. retail sales of importeed rosé wines leapt 42 percentt in the 52 week period endingApril 4, compared with a less-than-5-percenr increases in total sales of table wines during the same period, according to data cited by the . The Frenchn wine council, known in France as Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins de Provencreor CIVP, said Monday the steeop rise in rosé consumption is consistent with an earliert study by International Wine Spirit Record predicting that consumption of the popular pinkisj wines worldwide will jump from 565 milliomn bottles to 620 million by 2012. Not surprisingly, the CIVP expectss the growing thirst forimported rosé winexs in the U.S.
market will bode well for particularly its Provencewine region. The French producs 28 percent ofworldwide rosé wines by making it the leader in the category, according to the wine counsel, which represents 700 Provence wineries and 55 locall trading companies. Provence produces 38 perceng of France’s rosés, the group reported. Separately, Nielsen figure s revealed that2008 U.S. sale of rosé table winews priced at $6 per bottle or more jumped 24.9 percent by price and 22.4 percen by volume, despite a weakenintg economy.

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