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| October 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 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

The reds are on the rise. Amid the sea of white wines that Americans have favored in recent years--including the tsunami known as chardonnay, the white-wine varietal that alone represents nearly 20 percent of U.S. wine sales--there's a strong current carrying red wines to new prominence. Sales of reds more than doubled over the past decade while sales of whites dropped slightly, according to data from the Wine Institute, an association of California wineries and affiliated businesses.

It helps that drinking red wine has been linked with possible health benefits such as a reduced risk of heart disease, though it's not clear whether wine, red or white, is any ...

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