An important evaluation of US wine consumption trends
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:56 pm
Excellent and well documented article with statistical analysis but anything but boring.
http://www.sthelenastar.com/articles/20 ... 921327.txt
Are you surprised to see the numbers increasing so steadily? I know what is reported in the article but in 2000, in reality of ALL American citizens, the number of people who had ever tried wine was only 11%. However, that is misleading because it included minors as well. I'd have to check their numbers vs. the population at the turn of the 21st century, but still think it was amazingly a small number and on a per capita basis we were very far down the list as a wine consuming country.
http://www.sthelenastar.com/articles/20 ... 921327.txt
Are you surprised to see the numbers increasing so steadily? I know what is reported in the article but in 2000, in reality of ALL American citizens, the number of people who had ever tried wine was only 11%. However, that is misleading because it included minors as well. I'd have to check their numbers vs. the population at the turn of the 21st century, but still think it was amazingly a small number and on a per capita basis we were very far down the list as a wine consuming country.