Trend – rosé wines slim down for summer (June 16, 2010)

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The rosé wine season is well and truly upon us, and there is a clear tendency for these fresh, juicy wines to loudly proclaim their drinkability and lower alcohol and calorie content.

Alcohol in wine: a selling point

Emblematic of the wine trend, in Languedoc the Léger range should be noted; La Cave Richemer has three wines at 11%, white, red and rosé, launched for the summer. The wine’s 11% alcohol content is obtained naturally for the white and rosé thanks to early harvests, while the red wine is the fruit of a method of de-alcoholization by a combination of membrane techniques.

For its part, La Colombette has invented, for the Féria de Béziers (11 to 15 August 2010), a féria rosé in PET plastic bottles: no risk of broken wine glass on the floor of the bodegas and casitas. On the photograph, the bottle of wine on the left, shorter and wider, is made of plastic; it contains the same amount of liquid (75 cl) as the bottle on the right, made of glass. Domaine la Colombette, also known for its Plume range at 9%, is offering a Grenache rosé wine at 11.5%, rich and charming, cheeky and cheerful as a night at the féria which stays one glass on the right side of sensible.

A market in a hurry

For a whole part of the wine industry, at the beginning of the supply chain, the rosé wine season is already over: it only remains to sell the wine to the end customer now that summer is here; but there are still some deals to be done. The rosé wine market remains dynamic despite a small French wine harvest in 2009, there is a shortage of red wine, particularly Vins de France and some wines of Protected Geographical Indication, notably because production of wine has shifted to rosés, considered more of a growth market. Wine producers had to hurry, with a vintage that was not always easy to vinify, to make their wines ready for the trade fairs that marked the start of the year.

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.

For more information, email Wine@Yats-International.com or visit http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

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.