(WesternFarmpress) - After two consecutive years of light grape crops, and a dry start to the 2012 growing season, a standing room crowd of 2,200 packed the Hyatt Regency Ballroom on Tuesday morning to mull the state of the wine industry at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. On the upside, attendees learned the overall domestic wine market posted positive gains last year. U.S. wine shipments rose to 345 million cases in 2011, a 4.4 percent increase over 2010.