Excuse the typos, it's a little hard to get this all out while holding a glass of red.

Personally, I'll take a nice shiraz to unwind. Turns out, I'm not alone.

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Illinois ranked in the top five in the U.S in "wine consumption" trailing only Texas, New York, Florida, and California per VinePair.

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In fact, the 35,000 plus gallons of wine shows Illinois residents drink two times as much wine as Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri folks.

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Only Michigan can hold a candle (or glass) to the amount of wine we ingest with just over 25,000 gallons.

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So fellow Illinoisians, raise a glass of your favorite red or white tonight and toast the finest wine drinking state in the Midwest.

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