Tim,

We love your insight and wisdom. Great predictions.

In our little corner of the wine world, we have seen only growth in the $25-and-up category. Double-digit growth, in fact. We think that wine drinkers are shunning restaurant wine purchases and moving up-market when buying wines from us. Folks are either staying home and enjoying a better quality of wine (for less) or, they are paying corkage fees and STILL saving money.

As for who the breakout star of 2009 will be? Hopefully it'll be The Wine Spies!

Top Secret regards,

Agent Red