U.S. DRINKS RECORD AMOUNT OF WINE

The increase in wine consumption in the United States has helped vintners and growers recover from the wine glut brought on by the 2004 and 2005 harvests. U.S. sales of wine surpassed an estimated 300 million cases last year for the first time, Jon Fredrikson said last week at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento, the industry's largest trade show.Before long, the U.S. will become the largest wine-drinking nation in the world as Americans grow more comfortable with