No buyers for a 2009 harvest rich in quantity and quality alike (Dec 04, 2009)

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Due to the favourable climatic conditions of 2009, the grape harvest in Bulgaria increased by 8.4% to more than 400 tonnes of grapes, as opposed to 369.4 tonnes last year. Winegrowers predict that the wine quality will be just as excellent, with a high sugar content and powerful flavour.

Nevertheless, growers have little to celebrate, since the 2009 campaign looks set to be the worst for 20 years. Due to dwindling export and collapsing wine sales on the domestic wine market, sellers have enough unsold stock to cover sales for the next year, even if no wine at all is produced this year.  Moreover, given the complicated credit allocation procedure, lack of cash means that wine wholesalers are unable to buy the new harvest. Therefore, wine producers are selling off their wine immediately, either at greatly reduced prices or with the promise of payment in springtime. According to early forecasts from the National Chamber of Vine and Wine, the total volume of grapes purchased for the wine industry will fall by 50% to 120 tonnes, as opposed to 203.4 tonnes last year.

Faced with a 15 to 20% drop in export orders, wineries are counting on their own vineyards and their contracts with local cooperatives. In this situation there will be almost no call to buy from small independent producers, who will be forced to choose between two evils – selling their grapes for a song, or leaving the fruit to rot on the vines.

According to the National Chamber of Vine and Wine, producers currently get 50 to 70% of what they need from their own grapes. Since 2000, most wine establishments, especially the countless “château” style properties that have sprung up across the country, have invested in their own vineyards in order to be sure of a consistent supply of grapes. Many of these vineyards have been replanted recently and the majority of properties will soon have enough grapes to cover all of their production. This, say the experts, will sound the death knell for the small grape producers who own more than half of the vines in Bulgaria, that is 104 335 hectares.

[ Sources : APK-Inform, dnevnik, independent]

Clark Wine Center was built in 2003 by Hong Kong-based Yats International Leisure Philippines to become the largest wine shop in Philippines supplying Asia’s wine lovers with fine vintage wines at attractive prices.  Today, this wine shop in Clark Philippines offers over 2000 selections of fine wines from all major wine regions in the world.  As a leading wine supplier in Philippines, Pampanga’s Clark Wine Center offers an incomparable breadth of vintages, wines from back vintages spanning over 50 years.  Clark Wine Center is located in Pampanga Clark Freeport Zone adjacent to Angeles City, just 25 minutes from Subic and 45 minutes from Manila.

Wines from Burgundy, Bordeaux, Rhone, Loire, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Alsace, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa, Chile and Argentina etc. are well represented in this Clark Wine Shop.

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Getting to this wine shop in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Philippines from Manila

Getting to the Clark Wine Center wine shop from Manila is quite simple:  after entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway M A Roxas. Clark Wine Center is the stand-along white building on the right, at the corner A Bonifacio Ave.  From the Clark International Airport DMIA, ask the taxi to drive towards the entrance of Clark going to Angeles City.  From Mimosa, just proceed towards the exit of Clark and this wine shop is on the opposite side of the main road M A Roxas.