Wine— a multibillion-dollar industry

Moulton, K

Wine— a multibillion-dollar industry

Author

Kirby S. Moulton

Author Affiliations

Kirby S. Moulton is Economist, Cooperative Extension, University of California, Berkeley.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 34(7):9-11. DOI:10.3733/ca.v034n07p9. July 1980.

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Abstract

The current problems of the California wine industry all have parallels in the industry's earlier days. Its history is a fabric of high and low profits, overplanting and underplanting, surplus and shortage, and ascending and descending preferences. The industry has become robust and exceedingly complex but has never really resolved the problem of the profitable coordination of grape production and wine sales.

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