Burgundy wine healthy despite morose context, wine grower’s stocks at their lowest (Dec 17, 2009)

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After three years of growth, with record wine sales established in 2006/2007 then a year which made it back to equilibrium (2007/2008), the last Burgundy wine sales campaign was characterised by a considerable fall in sales (-13%), essentially due to figures recorded outside of France (-24%).

This is a logical situation for a vineyard which exports one bottle of wine out of two, given the global financial crisis in which its two main clients (USA and UK) have been particularly hard hit. The French wine market, however, has held up well (-1%).

Over the 12 months ending July 2009, the Burgundy wine region sold the equivalent of 177 million 75cl bottles, i.e. a 13% decline compared to the previous campaign. If we add to this figure the 9 million bottles used for different professional activities (tastings, free samples etc.) the total volume of Burgundy wine which left the storehouses reached 186 million bottles, or a return to the level of the 2004-2005 campaign, the last period of economic crisis. Basically, everyone hopes that the outstanding quality of the 2009 vintage will trigger the same sort of reactions as did the 2005 vintage, introducing three strong years of marketing and record sales of wine (with sales greater than production, there resulted a significant fall in stocks).

As the 2008 harvest was one of the smallest of the last 10 years (-5% compared to 2007), wine-growers’ stocks, which fell in July 2008 to their lowest level since 1999, are likely to grow only slowly (roughly +5%) and remain amongst the lowest of the decade.

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.