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Some quantity crunching brought excellent news to people that attended a round of grape grower tailgate meetings in California’s San Joaquin Valley, including word the state’s complete shipments for the U.S. industry in 2011 have been six % higher than the year prior to.

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That’s the highest it's been year-to-year because 2003, stated Jeff Bitter, vice president for operations with Fresno-based Allied Grape Growers.

Individuals on the meetings also noticed about solutions to keep track of use of nutrients that comprise of nitrogen, which has develop into a focus for regulators due to nitrates during the state’s water supply. They had been also reminded grapes for sale also substantially nitrogen can harm their crop.

Bitter said year-to-year increases are while in the one % to 3 % range. And information extrapolated from a Gromberg-Fredrikson report display the wine grape sector might be climbing from the 2009-2010 recession.

“The actual development has come in shipments of bottles within the $3 to $7 [per bottle] plus the $7 to $14 category,” Bitter explained, pointing to increases of 9.two percent and 8.three percent respectively. Shoppers remain expense aware, he stated, adding that higher finish wineries are giving a whole lot of new wine offerings in the $7-$14 selection.

Wine at over $14 a bottle enhanced at eight.two percent at the same time, but that was on a base of 25 million scenarios, bulk wine for sale when compared to about 127 million circumstances for that decrease price wines.

Chardonnay shipments were up just 3.two %, but that amounted to a whopping 55 million cases.

Bitter said cabernet sauvignon rose at six.two percent as well as a challenge in that area is going to be supplying the marketplace: “Can we get it around the shelf in the similar quantity and in the very same cost?”

California sold extra packaged exports than ever, Bitter stated, because of a weak U.S. dollar and limited foreign supplies. But there had been no incentives to move wine out of California in bulk.

On the other side of your coin, bulk imports were up by a lot more than a quarter as a consequence of a have to supplement supply, Bitter explained. But packaged imports were low.

And 4 wineries - E&J Gallo, the Wine Group, Trinchero and Delicato - accounted for 75 % of all the growth while in the market place last year.

“The big boys are big and are getting bigger,” Bitter explained.

E&J Gallo alone accounted for 28.6 % of California wine shipments, with a 9 % jump for your year, considered to be huge growth given its large base. Gallo has stepped up contracts for grapes within the state and expanded its capacity to handle them.

Gary Agajanian with Agajanian Vineyards, a grape and wine buyer in Madera, explained “a few wineries dominate in the winemaking Central Valley and we need those guys.” But he also champions diversity.

“Now is the time to lock in prices,” Agajanian explained. “Don’t take one year’s hot selling price. Think long term.”

Agajanian stated many wines had been discounted into the marketplace last year as wineries “moved out quite a lot of inventory.”

Agajanian and Bitter have been among speakers at the tailgate session at Bapu Farms in Madera. Other programs had been presented in Visalia and Manteca.