11/29/2004

The Governator Pitches CA Wine in Japan

Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Japan, earlier this month, to pitch California wines to our Asian brothers. A waste of time? It would be for Oklahoma, but it turns out Japan pumps quite a sum of money into The Left Coast's wine industry.

It turns out that Japan is the largest wine market in Asia, and the third-largest export market for California wine, behind the United Kingdom and Canada.
More than 250 California wine brands are sold in Japan, and the wine store with the largest number of California wine products outside of California is in Tokyo.
That's according to the Wine Institute, whose president, Bobby Koch, went along on the governor's trip.


If our Oklahoma leaders ever get finished protecting our morals and promoting their own, maybe they will start working on expanding our economic base.

Arnold Puts Some Muscle Behind State Wine Industry by Tim Moran

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