$162 Billion National Wine & Grape Industry Impact
An economic impact study released in late January shows that the American wine and grape industry has quite an effect on their local economies. The total annual impact of the wine, grape and grape products industries on the American economy is $162 billion, based on a report by Napa Valley’s MKF Research LLC.

Some overall highlights:
       • 1.1 million jobs
       • $33 billion in wages
       • 23,856 grape farms covering 934,750 acres and producing $3.5 billion in “farm gate” sales
       • 4,929 wineries with $11.4 billion in sales
       • $3 billion in table grape sales
       • $2.8 billion in grape juice sales
       • $560 million in raisin sales
       • $9.1 billion of federal taxes and $8 billion of state and local taxes paid

Researcher Barbara Insell, who managed the project, highlighted the incredible “value-added” nature of the wine industry in particular, with the $11.4 billion in sales at the winery generating an additional $2.7 billion for wine distributors and $9.8 billion for restaurants and retail wine stores; and with “wine country tourism” attracting 27.3 million tourists spending over $3 billion in the rural wine regions.