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Wines on the rise.(Buyers Guide)

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| December 01, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

To call them overnight sensations would be a stretch, since their history goes back a long way. But syrah and pinot grigio have swiftly risen from relative obscurity in the U.S. to become the hot wines of the moment. In supermarkets alone, sales of syrah (also called shiraz) shot up nearly 70 percent in a recent 12-month period, while pinot grigio (also called pinot gris) jumped nearly 50 percent.

Syrah's sales are still dwarfed by those of the top-selling reds, merlot and cabernet sauvignon. And among the whites, pinot grigio is a drop in the barrel compared with chardonnay, which alone accounts for about 20 percent of U.S. wine sales.

But the very ...

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