A Year in Wine

If there’s one thing the past couple of weeks has taught us, wine and spirits consumption is still going strong despite the recession. Jon Fredrikson, president of Gomberg Fredrikson & Associates, told listeners at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium that wine consumption is still expanding in the U.S., particularly among millennials. Recall that Vinexpo released data last week that predicts the U.S. will become the world’s largest wine consumer by 2010.However, the recession is affecting on-premise and price trends