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Wine Buzz Grows, Beer Flattens

The beer class is finally embracing the grape, Slate says

By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff

Posted May 31, 2007 8:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – The American middle class has become connoisseurs of everything—coffee, '80s Japanese garage-rock bands, environmentalist toilet paper, and now wine, writes Slate's Field Maloney. Fermented grape juice doubled its audience in the past decade, while consumption of lower-brow beer stagnated. And for the first time... Read full story »

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