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...growers boosted wine-grape acreage by 26%, to 363,000. Nearly 100 new wineries took root between 1978 and 1982 in the Napa Valley and adjoining Sonoma County. But sales, which had grown by an average 6% annually during the 1970s, suddenly flattened in 1982 at about 360 million gal., and have grown only marginally since then. Growers who planted their vines in anticipation of blossoming demand are finding a market that has shriveled like a raisin. Thompson seedless grapes, a basic variety that fetched $200 per ton in 1981, now sell for as low as $50. For many farmers...
...boosted their share of the American market this year to more than 25%, up from 13% in 1975. Italy, the biggest seller to the U.S., uncorked the low-price segment with fruity, fizzy Lambruscos like Riunite and dry soaves like Folonari. Italy's shipments increased from 3.7 million gal. in 1970 to 69 million last year...
...general stagnation in U.S. wine sales. Says Ann Clurman, a social-trends researcher for Yankelovich, Skelly & somewhat." White: The fetish "Wine for has lost fitness, its along status with increased minimum drinking ages and stiffer drunk-driving laws, has stalled U.S. adult per capita wine consumption at about 2.2 gal. annually...
...enough to cause a pimple. But Philip Michael Thomas, 36, and Don Johnson, 36, stars of the new TV show Miami Vice, risked complexion and cavities to do their part at a two-day chocoholics' festival. The pair took turns on a spring-loaded seat over a 400-gal. vat of chocolate syrup, while a bevy of young girls lobbed baseballs at the target for $3 a pop. After three splashdowns each in the high-calorie goo, the men were just too delicious for the girls to resist. Recalls Thomas: "They licked the chocolate off my hairy chest...
...took steps to cut the amount of lead used in gasoline, it failed to reckon with the orneriness of American motorists. Car owners have been illegally filling an estimated 13% of the no-lead vehicles on the road with leaded gas, which costs an average of 7? per gal. less than the unleaded variety. Last week the EPA fought back. It proposed rules that would slash the amount of lead in leaded gasoline by 91%, starting...