Its been a busy month for wine industry research reports and forecasts. Yesterday Vinexpo, in conjunction with the IWSR, released their 12th Global Study on the Wine and Spirits Market, which forecast that the US was poised to become the world's largest consumer of wine by 2012. Additionally, Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates spoke at the Unified Symposium in Sacremento this week and said that wine sales in the US grew to 316m cases in 2008, representing a new record level (however the growth rat