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Story summary
- U.S. grape growers are pulling roughly a quarter of California’s vineyards from production as wine demand collapses.
- U.S. wine sales fell 23% from 427 million cases in 2020 to 329 million cases in 2025.
- Grape prices in California dropped more than 20% over the past five years.
- Allied Grape Growers reports about half of this year’s crop entered harvest without buyer contracts, hurting Lodi vineyards and farmworkers.