California wine sales in the U.S. reached another record high of 441 million gallons (185.4 million nine-liter cases) in 2005 with a retail value of $16.5 billion, according to wine industry consultant Jon Fredrikson of Woodside and publisher of the Gomberg-Fredrikson Report. Total California winery shipments to all markets both in the U.S. and abroad reached 532 million gallons (223.9 nine-liter cases) last year.
[Source: Wine Institute]
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