December 12, 2012 | 6:00 AM
For the first time in its nearly 50-year history, the $2.7 billion wine industry in Oregon exceeded the two million case mark, according to the 2011 Oregon Winery Census Report.
Oregon saw overall sales increase by 9 percent in both volume and revenue. That makes 2011 the biggest single year in the industry's history.
That figure also far outpaced both the 2 percent growth rate for wine sales nationally last year and the 5.6 percent growth posted by the country's largest wine-producing state, California.
Read more, OregonLive.com
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