Customers love aroma, bouquet and style. Legislators love jobs, wages and taxes.
By Jim Trezise
Wine is a magical beverage, however it’s additionally a sturdy economic system. From the winery to the desk, the wine economic system is boosting the American economic system with 1.75 million jobs, $102 billion in wages, $53 billion in taxes and $323 billion in whole impression in 2025.
At this time, the wine economic system is our greatest safety as we enter a difficult new period. We have to tout wine’s value, and WineAmerica already has the content material so that you can share.
Embracing the challenges
Within the 43 years I’ve been within the wine trade, I’ve seen many challenges, however by no means so many main ones suddenly: generational shifts, elevated competitors, hashish legalization, local weather change, international efforts to get rid of alcohol consumption, the whiplash of uncertainty surrounding tariff wars, potential modifications to the Dietary Tips for People, main cuts in federal funding and employment, state-level tax improve proposals and a lot extra.
The primary two require higher advertising, whereas the remaining contain public coverage and the individuals who form it. Every problem requires a particular response, however all of them might be buttressed by fixed reminders of wine’s worth to our economic system in any respect ranges.
Wine is a tasteful financial engine, the final word value-added product from vine to glass, which is produced and consumed (and taxed) in all 50 states. In 2025, the wine trade is boosting the American economic system by greater than $323 billion, together with:
- 10,761 wine producers;
- 763,080 winery acres;
- 1.75 million jobs;
- $102.14 billion annual wages;
- 74 million vacationer visits;
- $14.13 vacationer expenditures;
- $53.24 billion whole taxes;
- $26.16 billion federal taxes; and
- $27.07 billion state & native taxes.
The 2025 Nationwide Affect Examine of the Wine Business was sponsored by WineAmerica and performed by John Dunham & Associates, a extremely revered financial analysis agency specializing in public coverage areas. Moreover the three paperwork highlighting the important thing outcomes, we at all times embrace the detailed Methodology and Often Requested Questions (FAQ) to be completely clear. JDA additionally ready related research for WineAmerica in 2017 and 2022.
Wine’s financial advantages are available in three areas: Direct (manufacturing, distribution and consumption); Provider (items and companies supporting the trade); and Induced (bills in native companies and communities). Right here is the uncooked knowledge:
Legislators and their workers don’t have time to make sense of all these numbers, so we’ve made it simple for them to grasp with this press launch.
And if they need an actual fast view, right here’s a helpful infographic we created.
WineAmerica is the Nationwide Affiliation of American wineries, with vineyard, affiliation and provider members from 46 states — which provides as much as 92 U.S. Senators, together with a number of in key management positions. We even have relationships with many key Home members and work carefully with the bipartisan Congressional Wine Caucus, co-chaired by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and Mike Thompson (D-CA).
State stats
Given our standing as a nationwide group, we insisted that our financial impression research consists of the identical detailed data for all 50 states. In spite of everything, a lot of the laws and regulation governing the wine trade happens on the state degree. These knowledge can be found to everybody, not simply WineAmerica members.
Not surprisingly, California derives probably the most financial profit from wine, at $84.51 billion, adopted by:
- Florida, $26,09 Billion
- Texas, $24.39B
- New York, $16.81B
- Illinois, $11.72B
- Washington, $10.56B
- Michigan, $8.96B
- Ohio, $7.70B
- Pennsylvania, $7.26B
- Oregon, $7.08B
Wait, what…?
How might Florida be second and Texas third, when Washington and Oregon are such main wine producers? Due to consumption, pushed by inhabitants. This research, appropriately, measures all the pieces from vine to glass. In spite of everything, if there wasn’t consumption, there could be no want for manufacturing.
Please Cross It On
So to get the three paperwork to your state, simply go to this hyperlink and scroll down, obtain them, put them in your web site, embed them in your personal laptop and go them on to your native, state and federal coverage makers, regional media and colleagues in our wine group. The hyperlink additionally consists of the three nationwide paperwork and Methodology.
We at WineAmerica have shared these extensively with federal legislators, in addition to management at TTB and USDA, they usually’re on our web site, however they’re way more significant coming from you, the constituent.
We encourage you to ship these state paperwork to each of your U.S. Senators, your member of Congress, governor, state legislative leaders, mayor and county government, chamber of commerce and tourism company — and anybody else you suppose might have sway.
Don’t wait till there’s a disaster, once they gained’t have time to concentrate. Do it now, in order that they’ll have the data they want prematurely.
We’re in probably the most difficult of instances, however by working collectively and supporting one another, our wine group will develop and flourish.
Range is our Power. Unity is our Energy.
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Jim Trezise
Jim Trezise is president of WineAmerica (WA), the one nationwide wine trade affiliation in the US. WA is a 500-member sturdy group that encourages the expansion and improvement of American wineries and winegrowing by means of the development and advocacy of sound public coverage. Membership is inspired to help the essential work of WA, which advantages all U.S. wineries.
