For the first time in a quarter of a century, Americans are buying less wine -- apparently because they're drinking more spiked seltzer.
News headlines today: Jan. 14, 2020Emon Hassan/The New York Times via Redux Pictures
As U.S. wine purchases fell for the first time in 25 years, sales of ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages, including seltzers like White Claw and Truly, climbed nearly 50% in 2019, according to IWSR, an industry analyst group. The sum of alcohol sales rose slightly, by 0.3%, in 2019, generating about $167 billion, according to IWSR, which predicts another overall increase in 2020, as sales of liquor and hard seltzers and kombuchas may again rise.Wine is pouted at Il Posto Accanto, a wine bar and trattoria in New York, Jan. 4, 2020."The beverage alcohol industry in the U.S.
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