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The Business of Wine
by Kim Clarke
W
ant to know how to make a small fortune in the wine
business? Start with a large one – or at least that’s
how the old adage goes. And while there are surely
examples of financial strife in the wine business, there are some
domestic and international publicly-held companies taking big
stakes in the U.S. wine industry. Though there are almost 7,500
wineries in the United States, seven wine companies (comprising
hundreds of brand names) produce 82 percent of all wine sold in
the Uni