California sparkling wine

The first sparkling wine to top Wine Enthusiast’s annual Top 100 List

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Roederer Estate L’Ermitage 2004, one of the best California sparkling wine, has been named Wine Enthusiast’s number one wine of 2013 out of the more than 16,500 wines from around the world the tasting panel reviewed this year. Wines featured in the Top 100 are all top-scoring wines, but also wines that boast exceptional quality-to-price … Read more

The U.S. is the largest wine market in the world

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2012 wine sales in U.S. reached a new record of 360.1 million 9-liter cases with an estimated retail value of $34.6 billion,” according to wine industry consultant Jon Fredrikson of Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates in Woodside. Of the total, almost two-thirds or 207.7 million cases of California wine account for a 58% share of U.S. wine … Read more