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August 24, 2007

Hot retail sector: franchised wine stores

  • The stores are flourishing economically and garnering praise for helping cultivate the next generation of wine aficionados.
    • By DANA TIMS
    The Oregonian

    BEAVERTON, Ore. — Most of the considerable attention lavished upon Oregon's fast-growing wine industry over the past decade has focused on who is producing which varieties of grapes and where.

    But a corresponding increase in wine consumption in the state — for the first time consumer preferences for wine are now neck-and-neck with beer — is shifting some of that attention toward the new-found retail gold mine represented not just by Oregon wine, but by wine sales in Oregon.


     
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