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Some number crunching brought fine news to individuals who attended a round of grape grower tailgate meetings in California’s San Joaquin Valley, which includes word that the state’s total shipments towards the U.S. market place in 2011 have been six percent greater than the year prior to.

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That is the highest it has been year-to-year given that 2003, stated Jeff Bitter, vice president for operations with Fresno-based Allied Grape Growers.

Those in the meetings also heard about approaches to keep track of utilization of nutrients that include things like nitrogen, that has grow to be a concentrate for regulators because of nitrates inside the state’s water provide. They have been also reminded bulk wines also very much nitrogen can harm their crop.

Bitter stated year-to-year increases are actually during the 1 percent to three % assortment. And data extrapolated from a Gromberg-Fredrikson report display the wine grape marketplace may very well be climbing from the 2009-2010 recession.

“The authentic development has come in shipments of bottles during the $3 to $7 [per bottle] and also the $7 to $14 category,” Bitter mentioned, pointing to increases of 9.2 percent and eight.3 percent respectively. Customers remain cost conscious, he mentioned, including that higher finish wineries are giving a great deal of new wine offerings while in the $7-$14 assortment.

Wine at above $14 a bottle elevated at eight.2 % at the same time, but that was on a base of 25 million circumstances, wine grapes compared to about 127 million cases for your reduced expense wines.

Chardonnay shipments were up just three.2 %, but that amounted to a whopping 55 million situations.

Bitter stated cabernet sauvignon rose at six.two % together with a challenge in that location shall be supplying the marketplace: “Can we get it around the shelf within the same quantity and with the identical expense?”

California sold significantly more packaged exports than ever, Bitter mentioned, thanks to a weak U.S. dollar and limited foreign supplies. But there were no incentives to move wine from California in bulk.

Around the other side of your coin, bulk imports had been up by more than a quarter due to a have to supplement provide, Bitter explained. But packaged imports had been reduced.

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

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

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

Gary Agajanian with Agajanian Vineyards, a grape and wine buyer in Madera, stated “a few wineries dominate during the wine industry Central Valley and we demand these guys.” But he also champions diversity.

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

Agajanian mentioned many wines have been discounted into the market last year as wineries “moved out a great deal of inventory.”

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