Record California and United States wine sales reported

Wine sales in the United States, including California vintages, reached a record high last year, jumping 2%  compared with 2011.

Sales totaled 360.1 million cases with an estimated retail value of $34.6 billion, according to the Wine Institute, a San Francisco trade group.

Sales of California wines accounted for 58% of the U.S. business. The Golden State shipped 250.2 million  9-liter cases, worth $22 billion, to U.S. and foreign customers.

“The U.S. is the largest wine market in the world, with 19 consecutive years of volume growth,” Wine Institute President Robert P. Koch said.

U.S. wine exports in 2012 hit $1.43 billion, up 2.6% from the previous year. Ninety percent of U.S. exports came from California. The top destinations were the European Union, Canada and Hong Kong.

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Article by Marc Lifsher

April 9, 2013

 

How Wine-is is helping wineries, distributors and restaurants to boost sales and engage customers

The producers can promote their wines worldwide, in different languages and in a different format. They can access their statistics though Wine-is website and they can advertise their wines.  Wine-is is always searching for new ways to give more visibility to the producers not only through the website but also through the Wine-is Apps.

Wine-is is constantly investing on the research of innovation to face the market demands. In order to satisfy and help its clients to become more competitive, Wine-is is always trying to develop more features and new products.

In the last six months, Wine-is reached his highest peak so far, not only in terms of market positioning but also in terms of the range of products available to its customers.

Wine-is launched the Menu List, a product that is revolutionizing the restaurants’ world. Nowadays, to be different from the competition is essential that the restaurants seek to offer their customers a unique and avant-guard experience. Thus, Wine-is offered his clients the opportunity to have their Menu List on iPad as well as the Wine List.

Wine-is bases its strategy on the maxim of “think global and act local”. So, in order to achieve the preferences of all its customers, Wine-is added two more languages to the ones that existed previously: Chinese and Russian.

Other features were reached recently, which led the company to conquer new markets that have not been penetrated yet: Puerto Rico and Macao. Wine-is is now working with some restaurants and distributors in these areas and is doing an effort to expand the business.

Wine-is team work hard to connect the Wine World and is always making a big effort to satisfy his clients.

Wine-is Registration

Have you already made your registration at Wine-is website? Learn here how to do it =)

Step 1: Access to Wine-is Website and click on “Register” (on the top of the page) or in Restaurant/Winery, depending on your role in the wine business

Step 2: if you have clicked on “Register” you should choose your role in the the wine busine (picture 1) and fill the data. If you have clicked on Restaurant/Winery you only have to fill the data (picture 2)

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After this process, you will receive an e-mail saying that your account is waiting for approval.