The U wine industry continues to i...

The U wine industry continues to increase but the 2003 vintage took a bit of a production hit. 2003 wine shipments in the United States from all sources were up 5 percent at 627 million gallons. California accounted for 67 percent of the total market share at 417 million gallons, according to the Wine Institute in San Francisco.

The California grape crush was down 5 percent in 2003 from 2002 totaling les than 294 tons of wine grapes crushed. And growers received bad of recent origins as prices for red and white wine grapes forward average dipped below 2002 prices, according