Economic Report - US Wine Makers Seek to Raise Sales in China

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American wine producers are hoping to increase their sales in China, the country's growing middle class is drinking wine. The United States just 74 million dollars in wine to China last year. But are growing at a rate of nearly 20 percent a year. years ago, former basketball star Yao Ming launched a wine company Yao Family Wines. It is based in California's Napa Valley ---- of the top wine producing areas in the world. Tom Hinde with Yao Family Wines. He says the vineyard grows only Cabernet grapes because many people in China like red wine. The small makes a costly product. Its top cabernet sells for 625 dollars bottle. Napa Valley's Black Stallion Winery also looks to China as promising market. Holly Evans works for the company. She says the has two wines that are sold throughout the United States and in China. Many moderately priced wines are exported to China. They some from the San Antonio Winery in Los Angeles. Fifteen percent its production goes to ChinaThe Wine Institute represents more than 1,000 and allied businesses through California. Spokesperson Linsey Gallagher says her group always receiving requests from China. But she says the country is problem for marketing. She says that, in China, it is not that California is the fourth largest wine producing area in the , producing many kinds of wine. Winemakers hope to expand the market fine dry wines, including white wines, which are now a small of the Chinese marketFor VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villarreal.

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