Numbers are in for all Argentinean wine exports for the first couple months of 2009. And the news is mostly bad…with the extremely notable exception of…glass-bottled wine, largely driven by demand from the United States. Check out an article on the report here.
These are nice numbers to affirm what we’ve been saying for the last couple months…people drink more in a recession, but they also start looking more for value. Argentinean wine is certainly exploding on the critical level, but what’s really driving sales is that it’s so cheap compared with other good wines from more expensive areas.
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