Sparkling wines fight it out on the international market (Nov 23, 2009)

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The age-old rivals of French sparkling wine, Spanish cava and Italian prosecco, look set to steal a march on champagne this year due to the economic crisis.

Both cava and champagne exported close to 140 million bottles in 2008, after a period of highly competitive sales : champagne recorded a 6.4% drop in export figures (source : CIVC), whereas cava exports were up by 9.6% (source : Cava Regulation Council) at nearly 139 million bottles as opposed to 141 million bottles of champagne. In 2007, champagne was ahead by 24 million bottles : in 2008, this gap has closed to just 2.3 million. The Spanish monitoring body OEMV predicts, however, that this pattern will culminate in significant slumps in sales for both appellations in 2009. In September, Nielsen published export sales figures for champagne for the first quarter of 2009, which were down overall by 20%.

Cava is champagne’s chief adversary on the international market, far ahead of prosecco, which exported 16 million bottles in 2007 (with a production of around 150 million bottles, as opposed to 340 million bottles of champagne). Nevertheless, prosecco has ambitious development plans which are bound to have an impact on export figures, since they aim to increase their production to 250 million bottles “before very long” (source : VITeff).

Any analysis of these trends remains incomplete without a comparison of commerical performance in terms of value rather than volume. These figures, which are not yet available, are worthy of close scrutiny in order to put champagne’s loss and cava’s gain in perspective.

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.