Volume shipments reached 435.2 million litres or 48.4 million cases, up 7.5%.
“Consumers across the globe continue to recognise the quality, diversity and value of California wines, despite significant trade barriers and heavily subsidised foreign competitors,” said Wine Institute president and CEO Robert P Koch. “While the US remains our largest, most important market, California exports a fifth of its wine, and we are on track to reach our goal of $2bn in exports by 2020. Our outstanding 2012 and 2013 California vintages, heralded for quality as well as quantity, were a record high, so we have the ability to expand.”
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