Who is the wine consumer? Who cares? The wine industry globally is a multibillion dollar industry, yet research into the behaviour of the typical wine consumer is limited. This article is a partial review of the literature and by deduction from current trends endeavours to provide the wine maker with a broad profile of who drinks wine and what they might be drinking in the future.
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Anthony L. Spawton (1991) studied this question.
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