The Washington Post reports Texas is not up to 138 wineries as growth nationwide booms.

The U.S. is turned on to wine
We're catching up to the French in consumption of it, estimates say

By WALTER NICHOLLS
Washington Post

Americans are drinking more and better wine and love a dependable bargain bottle, which is increasingly easier to find. And with every sip we are breaking records: For the 15th consecutive year, wine consumption in the United States is projected to have risen in 2007, after a 4 percent gain in 2006.

Projected estimates for 2007 have the nation reaching a record 304 million cases of wine consumed. That will, for the first time, place the United States ahead of Italy in per-capita consumption, trailing only France, according to the 2007 wine market report by Impact Databank. At the current rate of growth, Americans will overtake the French by 2015.
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The U.S. is turned on to wine
We're catching up to the French in consumption of it, estimates say
By Walter Nicholls
Washington Post

Americans are drinking more and better wine and love a dependable bargain bottle, which is increasingly easier to find. And with every sip we are breaking records: For the 15th consecutive year, wine consumption in the United States is projected to have risen in 2007, after a 4 percent gain in 2006.

Projected estimates for 2007 have the nation reaching a record 304 million cases of wine consumed. That will, for the first time, place the United States ahead of Italy in per-capita consumption, trailing only France, according to the 2007 wine market report by Impact Databank. At the current rate of growth, Americans will overtake the French by 2015.

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Texas Wine production increasing
Wine production increases in TexasC. E. Clark 02.JAN.08Texas — According to the 2007 Grape Growers Association report — ranks fifth in the nation as a grape and wine producer. In this same report, it was estimated that there are more than 220 family owned vineyards, covering more than 3,700 acres in Texas.
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The first real Texas wine??

It's a West Texas grape grown in Yoakum County ... that's northwest Texas ... yes, north of Lubbock, even. Wow. Mized in with the corn and cotton.

Wine Library TV features some Texas wine:
It's time for the freak show of wine video to bring some Texas wine tasting to the web.

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