* Stephen Bates
* The Guardian, Wednesday 14 January 2009
Amid falling high street sales and crumbling retailers, one sector believes it is bucking the trend. The wine industry is predicting that sales in Britain will continue to grow over the next five years, despite the recession.
Britain has become the world's largest wine importer, topping 1.6 billion bottles, overtaking Germany and the US, and 12.4% higher than in 2003. Britons spent £3.3bn on wine in 2007.
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