January 3, 2014Inaugural SOURCE survey shows great grape gains in 2012By Karl KloosterBetter late than never could describe the 2012 Oregon Vineyard & Winery Census Report recently completed by the Southern Oregon University Research Center, whose apt acronym is SOURCE. But there’s far more to the story, which has actually made the Oregon wine industry and associated businesses quite thankful that a report is available to them at all. Then the Oregon Wine Board intervened. To their credit, the 2012 was published a month earlier than the 2011 report, and it reveals substantial increases over the previous year. However you slice it, Oregon’s wine industry continues its upward march for one overriding reason: The quality of our wine is the equal of any in the world.