California Grape Crush Sets Record

Dear Client:Preliminary crush reports from California indicate the total tons of wine crushed hit record levels of 4.01 million for 2012. This represents a 20% increase, according to the The California Agricultural Statistics Service. If you include all grape varieties the total grapes crush was closer to 4.3 million. Red wine varieties made up the largest share of grapes crushed at nearly 2.3 million tons, up 19%. The white wine variety crush totaled 1.7 million and was up 21%. Chardonnay