US set to overtake France in the UK

Australia, then France, are the two countries that send most wine to Britain’s increasingly thirsty wine drinkers but the US looks set to overtake France according to sales figures assembled by Nielsen for Off Licence News’s annual wine report.
 
SALES IN THE UK OFF-TRADE
(as monitored by Nielsen)
 
Country        Market share       Average price
               2007/08 2006/07     per bottle

Australia     23.6%  24.3%            £4.36
France       16.8%   17.8%            £4.40
US             16.3%  16.2%            £4.13
Italy           11.3%   10.5%            £3.69
S Africa        8.1%     8.0%           £3.78
Chile            7.3%     6.7%           £3.85 
Spain          ...