Berkeley, Calif.-based Peter Eastlake curates the wine list for summer music festivals
The summer music festival scene is heating up, and if rock concerts make you think of cheap beer or whiskey in plastic cups, you’re not alone. But if California wine retailer Peter Eastlake has his way, you’ll be pulling corks on some top cuvées instead. For the past four years, Eastlake, 39, the owner of a trio of wine stores in the Bay Area, has curated the wine tent at the massively popular Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. Now, he’s bringing the show on the road to the Great GoogaMooga, a combo wine, food and music festival organized by the creators of Outside Lands and Bonaroo that will be held in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on May 19 and 20. The wine side of the festival line-up includes top sommeliers like Aldo Sohm and Paul Grieco and winemakers from Bonny Doon and the Gotham Project, while the music portion includes headliners (and wine lovers) Hall & Oates and the Roots.
Eastlake, who grew up in Philadelphia and credits his wine importer neighbor for getting him into wine, recently spoke with Wine Spectator about how he made the leap from retail to festivals, why wine is ready for the big stage and which bottlings are best with music.
Wine Spectator: How did you get into wine?
Peter Eastlake: I grew up in Philadelphia, and my neighbor was a French wine importer. I was 20 and helping him with his Burgundies. I spent a year living in South Africa when I was in college and that was a fascinating immersive period [with South African wine]. Then when I graduated, I went straight to New York and worked at Morrell’s and then I managed the original Best Cellars on the Upper East Side. After 9/11, I moved to California and was the national buyer at Cost Plus World Market, based in Oakland. Together with my best friend, I opened Vintage Berkeley in North Berkeley in an old water-pumping station.
WS: What are some standout wines from your career?
PE: There was a blizzard in 1993 that shut down all the northeastern cities. I had done a tasting of our Burgundies in Wilmington so I had A.F. Gros Echézeaux and Richebourg—all this stuff open. I went back to my apartment in downtown Philadelphia and was completely snowed in and ended up drinking all of these Burgundies over the next four days. At the age of 22 years old—drinking Richebourg, Echézeaux at any hour because there was nothing else to do—I had a lot of time to think about the glory of the stuff I was drinking.
WS: What brought you to South Africa?
PE: After I had been selling wine in Philadelphia, I lived in Stellenbosch and Cape Town for a year in 1995. I went to the Cape Wine Academy, which was part of the Stellenbosch Farmers’ Winery at the time. I took a bunch of different classes there and got familiar with all the wineries there. It was cool because at that point this exciting up-and-coming region had been shut off from the rest of the world—or our world really. All of this newness despite the 400-year lineage of Cape wine. It was formative because I really got the culture of wine and the seasons.
WS: Do you have any personal wine favorites right now?
PE: I love big bottles. Maybe it’s because I’m a short guy? I don’t know … I’m an explorer. I love newness and interesting takes on things. Big bottles are always fun. Whether it’s a big bottle of rosé or a big bottle of Burgundy, I love to put a magnum down on the table and get into it with your closest.
WS: How did you get involved in curating wine for concerts?
PE: When Outside Lands came up, it was exciting because it was a chance to put wine in this live space in front of a huge amount of people. We had 60,000 people last year. I had been close with the guys from SuperFly. When Outside Lands was a year out, one of them said, “I wonder if there’s a role that wine might play?” And I said, “Absolutely, finally! An opportunity to take wine out of the box.” We’re creating a new platform where all of these pleasure points in our life—eating drinking, music—there’s a confluence of them all at this festival.
WS: Do you like music?
PE: Live music, yeah. I’ve always loved live music. I grew up in Philly so we’d go see the Who, the Rolling Stones, U2. The power of that huge collective experience has always had a big impact on me.
WS: It’s pretty rare to get good wine at a concert.
PE: It’s been a beer and whiskey thing. The aesthetic of rock-and-roll doesn’t fit wine. Programming wine in a music space, I constantly think: What is the connectivity between wine and music? We like to listen to music and drink wine, and to me that’s the most primal. There’s the artisan who makes a wine, who kind of resembles the mind of a musician. It’s an interesting thing. Wine and music work well together as a shared sensory experience, but I don’t see it as this winemaker is the new rock star. I think there are winemakers and sommeliers who embody the rock-and-roll aesthetic, but there are wines out there who have shy, quiet people behind them who create some of the most amazing, electric things you’ve ever tasted. So there are a lot of ways of thinking about it.
WS: Are there lots of musicians who like wine?
PE: These young indie bands, they bust their hump traveling around the globe, but more often than not these days, they eat pretty well and take care of themselves. They love wine and jump at it when they see it. At Outside Lands, they’ll bring the musicians over to the tent. Nathan from the Kings of Leon. Colin Meloy from the Decemberists—he’s a big fan of wine. And then a guy like Les Claypool who makes wine. There are a lot of wine-loving musicians.

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Clearwater is one of the hotels in Pampanga that offers good outdoor venues for events like team building and company outings. Manila event organizers look for good resorts near Manila to hold outdoor functions and events for clients. Many event planners choose Clearwater because it is located in Clark. This is one of the best event venues near Manila. There are over 10 outdoor private event venues in Clearwater resort suitable for groups of 50 to 3000 participants. Clearwater Resort is generally recognized by event planners as the best event venue in Clark Pampanga. Clearwater appears frequently on the top of a list of the best hotels in Pampanga. Camping is one of the popular outdoor activities that take place in Clearwater Resort which is generally regarded as one of the best hotels in Clark Philippines.

Best place for prenuptial Pictorial near Manila is Clearwater Resort in Pampanga

Residents of Manila travel out of town to the north in search for nice scenic spots in Clark, Pampanga for taking pictures as well as to unwind and relax in a well known hotel outside Manila. Frequently visited private resort in Manila is Clearwater, highly recommended by travel guide.

Clark Philippines offers good value for money for travelers and tourists looking for a safe and clean place to spend a vacation outside of Manila. There are a number of well know scenic spots and popular tourist destinations in Clark. Clark is already a popular destination for golfers from Manila. Clark Freeport offers some of the best golf courses in Pampanga and outshines many golf clubs and golf courses elsewhere in the Philippines.

Wedding couples travel to the north to have their prenuptial pictorial photo-shoot at Clearwater Resort. Within this beautiful resort in Pampanga there are many scenic spots by the lake, beach and picnic grounds, perfect for prenuptial pictorials outside of Manila.

Frequently visited beach resort in Pampanga opens new lodgings in Clark called The Lake House. This is a cluster of three rooms and a one-bedroom suite, all built over the bank of the fresh water lake in Clark Philippines.

Residents of Manila travel out of town to the north in search for highly recommended tourist spots in Clark, Pampanga. There are good places to visit in Pampanga but the best destination for families from Manila is Clark which is located next to Angeles City, the famous nightlife capital of the Philippines. Here in Clark, there are many interesting places to visit and one of the most frequently visited tourist spots is Clearwater Resort and Country Club, widely regarded as the best resort in Pampanga.

The best resorts in Clark Pampanga offer a special kind of experience that is different from that of the best resorts and hotels in Angeles City, Manila and Subic Philippines. One of the reasons why residents of Manila travel out of town towards the north is to enjoy the outdoor otherwise one might as well stay in the city and not bother to travel to Subic, Angeles City or Clark Philippines. What Clark Pampanga has to offer is a special sense of freedom that only resorts with large outdoor space and facilities can offer to guests from Manila.

This private resort in Pampanga, Angeles City, Clark Philippines is a highly recommended even venue in North Luzon for company outings and family retreats. The outdoor resort is a frequently visited hotel in Clark Pampanga because of beautiful view and good outdoor facilities for swimming, picnic and barbecue.

Families in Manila traveling out of town go to the north to get away from Manila to unwind, relax and swim with friends and children. Highly recommended holiday spot, outdoor resort and day-trip destination in the north is Clearwater Beach Resort in Clark. Clark is adjacent to Pampanga’s Angeles City which is just 70 minutes from Manila and 25 minutes from Subic. Clark is generally considered to be the safest tourist destination in the Philippines and it is also a peaceful place with no stress, very popular for tourists and event organizers looking for tranquil locations and calming spots for family bonding, corporate events and weddings.

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

China’s leading winemaker Dynasty Fine Wines is premiering a unique new Premium “Jue” Cask Collection of limited edition barrels of wine at VINEXPO Asia-Pacific from May 29-31 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Occupying 36m2 of presentation space at VINEXPO Asia-Pacific 2012, the design of the booth to exhibit this Premium “Jue” Cask Collection is an eye-catching showpiece inspired by the mega wine barrels that the Premium “Jue” Cask Collection will be sold in. The booth is to be divided into two levels with a stylish bar area and separate exhibition area providing a more spacious and contemporary environment. Three cask wines will be showcased in the forefront to allow wine and spirits professionals and media to have a sneak preview and taste of the new collection.
The 225-litre barrels – equivalent to 300 standard 750 ml bottles of wine – are promoted as prestigious gifts for corporations and high-end consumers, or a novel way of serving wine at banquets and special occasions. The name “Jue” is from the ancient Chinese text Yi Jing, which contains the saying: “I have good ‘Jue’ and I shall savour with you. Representing the concept behind Dynasty’s Premium “Jue” Cask Collection – “Jue” is therefore interpreted as to share fine wines with wine lovers. Dynasty’s Premium “Jue” Cask Collection will be showcased in three poetically named categories – Wisdom, Elegance and Imperial.
From the ancient Chinese text, “Imperial” represents the sovereigns descending upon the world – The most prestigious cask of all, Imperial, is blended from premium Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the remarkable vintage of 2003 in Qingtongxia, at the base of the eastern face of Helan Mountain in Ningxia. Quality was enhanced by strict seeding and planting, with production yield limited to 200kg per acre, giving the grapes delicate tannin and a harmonious sugar acidity ratio with a rich colour. Careful production by the winemakers and aging in top-of–the-line new oak barrels for at least 24 months, with temperature and humidity controls for over three years created a wine like a work of art. It is noble, full-bodied with outstanding quality and a silky smooth texture. This wine has aromas of cinnamon, cloves, cocoa and coffee beans. It can be cherished as the highly collectible French Lafite.
“Elegance” is a rare virtue of literati – Elegance was produced from Merlot grapes hand-picked in 2005 from Qingtongxia, at the base of the eastern face of Helan Mountain and the northern foothills of Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang. This production area is dry and cool in summer. The temperature difference between day and night is marked with adequate light that is ideal for the growth of quality grapes. The Elegance wine was stored in newly constructed French oak barrels for at least 18 months, having an elegant ruby red, with complex aromas of vanilla, blackberry, coffee, roasts and mushroom. The texture is smooth and soft, with a long aftertaste leaving a satisfactory experience.
“Wisdom” comes from a prudent mind that surpasses the superficial – Wisdom features 2007 Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes produced from vineyards on the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia, aged for over 18 months in fine French oak barrels, having a bright ruby red, with aromas of ripe grape berries, dried fruit and sweet vanilla smell of oak. These rich flavoured and full-body harmonious wines have a strong and long lasting aftertaste.
“This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the Group’s establishment and it is our pleasure to be exhibiting at this large scale event. To be included in this event is a testament to the Group’s hard work and we look forward to unveiling our best premium cask wines to the international market at this year’s VINEXPO Asia-Pacific, sharing with our guests the fruit of our dedication to excellence,” remarked Mr. Bai Zhisheng, Chairman and Executive Director of Dynasty Fine Wines Group Limited.
At VINEXPO Asia-Pacific 2012 Dynasty Fine Wines will also showcase Chinese wine specifically for retail in the North American markets, to be distributed through The Wine Group (TWG), one of the top three wine companies in the global market.
As well as producing and exporting some of China’s finest wines, Dynasty also works with a number of world renowned wineries from France, Italy, Germany, the USA, Chile and Spain, importing their luxury wines to China with marketing through Dynasty Fine Wine’s expanding distribution network.
To celebrate the official launch of these wines during VINEXPO Asia-Pacifc, Dynasty Fine Wines will be hosting “Tianjin Dynasty International Wine Co., Ltd Gala Cocktail” at Victoria Harbour. Attending winery partners will include J.P. Chenet from France, Henkell Trocken Kardinal from Germany and Santa Helena from Chile.

http://www.wines-info.com/En/html/2012/5/189-44771.html

Some of the good resorts in Pampanga offer good alternatives to hotel function rooms for seminars, corporate planning and meetings. More and more, Manila event planners prefer to hold planning sessions and meeting out of town in the north where participants can relax and unwind in outdoor facilities of some of the good resorts outside Manila. This way, the meetings can be much more productive as participants get a chance to enjoy the lake, beach and good picnic spots in a good resort in Clark Pampanga between seminars, planning sessions and meetings. Clearwater Resort is generally recognized by event planners as the best event venue in Clark Pampanga. Clearwater appears frequently on the top of a list of the best hotels in Pampanga. Visitors to Clark and Angeles City Pampanga seldom pass up the opportunity to relax and unwind by the lake of this popular resort in Pampanga.

Travel groups recommend Clearwater Resort for this Holy Week and Easter holidays because this hotel resort in Clark Philippines is a private resort that is near Manila and is highly recommended for families with children to relax and unwind in a safe and secure location. Clearwater Resort is one of the resorts in Pampanga that are highly recommended for visitors coming to Angeles City or Clark Pampanga during Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, New year and especially during the Philippines Hot Air Balloon Festival.

On the recommendations of Pampanga travel guides, families with children in Manila travel to the north for the best resort in Clark Pampanga that has a good beach for water sports and a picnic in the safe and secure outdoor. Pampanga tourist guides and travel tips cite Clearwater as one of the best resorts in Pampanga, a safe and secure tourist destination that kids love also. Unlike even the best resort in Angeles City Pampanga or other hotels in Manila or Subic, Clearwater Resort provides lots of green facilities so that guests can enjoy the outdoors in a peaceful and quiet ambience. Residents of Manila and Angeles City Pampanga who suffered stress of living in the city can finally relax and unwind in this well known private resort in Pampanga.

Clark Philippines offers good value for money for travelers and tourists looking for a safe and clean place to spend a vacation outside of Manila. Highly recommended summer vacation destination outside Manila is Clearwater Beach Resort in Clark. Clark is already a popular destination for golfers from Manila. Clark Freeport offers some of the best golf courses in Pampanga and outshines many golf clubs and golf courses elsewhere in the Philippines.

Manila residents stressed out from work are travelling out of town to the north looking for calming spots in Pampanga to relax and unwind. Visitors look for tranquil private resorts in Pampanga that offer a lifestyle with no stress. These private places, tranquil hotels and calming resorts are also highly recommended for family bonding especially if the outdoor resort is safe and secure.

Highly recommended by travel guides as the best private resort in Pampanga, Clearwater Resort in Clark Philippines also offers beach and lake venues for company outings and family picnics. This outdoor resort hotel also offers several beautiful venues for beach wedding and garden receptions. No wonder this private resort in Angeles City Clark Pampanga is frequently visited by wedding couples for prenuptial photo shoot.

Clearwater Resort is generally considered one of the best resorts in Pampanga.

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

RUTHERFORD — Frenchie Winery, named for and inspired by the beloved French bulldog of Raymond Vineyards proprietor Jean-Charles Boisset, has made its debut in Rutherford.
Located at Raymond Vineyards, Frenchie Winery is one of the few tasting rooms designed exclusively for dogs. In addition, the first two wines in a series bearing the Frenchie label are available for purchase at the winery, FrenchieWinery.com and wine.com. Each wine label depicts Frenchie as a historical figure, including Louis XIV and Napoleon and, soon, Marie Antoinette.
“Frenchie was a gift to my beloved wife,” Boisset said, “to ensure that she would always be in the company of a French gentleman. In fact, Frenchie is the perfect French gentleman: He’s loyal, charming, always up for an adventure and he never talks back. His playful, debonair and aristocratic style is reflected in the winery and the wines.”
According to Boisset, with more than 46 million dog owners in the U.S., Frenchie wanted to ensure that his fellow canines would be well taken care of when their people chose to visit Raymond Vineyards.
Inside, the winery includes five individual kennel spaces featuring specially designed wine barrel dog beds. Above the beds, in the “Gallery of Frenchie” hang canvas portraits depicting Frenchie as historical icons such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Julius Caesar and Marie Antoinette.
Overhead, a “Barkarrat” chandelier lights up a dog friendly tasting bar dispensing water for its guests. An outdoor play area offers canines a view of Frenchie’s bioDOGnamic vineyard, planted to Bordeaux varieties.
The new property also includes a small tasting bar for humans where they can sample Frenchie Wines. A doggie-cam will allow pet lovers to keep an eye on their furry friends while visiting the Raymond Winery main tasting room. Plans are underway for several dog-centric events including mobile pet grooming, adopt-a-pet day and more.
Just released are:
• 2009 Frenchie Napoleon Red Blend – Aromas and flavors of black and red fruit with hints of cassis and subtle oak are unleashed in each glass of this special blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Sangiovese, Zinfandel, Merlot and Cabernet Franc ($30)
• 2009 Frenchie Louis XIV Cabernet Sauvignon- A blend of 61 percent Sonoma County and 39 percent Napa County fruit, this wine has fetching aromas and flavors of blackberries and cocoa with hints of cassis and subtle notes of vanilla. ($30)
Additional wines are planned for launch in the future including a white wine blend, Frenchie Marie Antoinette. For a limited time, a special two-bottle wine duo including three Frenchie-branded tennis balls is available for purchase on wine.com for $49.99. All Frenchie wines are available at FrenchieWinery.com or at the Frenchie Winery at Raymond Vineyards.
“We are moving into the forefront of pet parenting in the digital age and connecting with our wine consumers via social and mobile marketing,” said Boisset. “Frenchie will be unleashing the story and inspiration behind his wines through a series of short videos on FrenchieWinery.com. He will be revealing the life of a rock star dog winemaker and building a community of Frenchie fans on Facebook and Dogbook while seeking out other like-minded friends to share their photos, videos and more.”

http://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/wine/napa-valley-s-first-dog-tasting-room-and-a-new/article_c72a12a8-9b11-11e1-8fd1-001a4bcf887a.html

Some of the good resorts in Pampanga offer safe outdoor venues for events such as team building and company outings. Function room for meetings and seminars is also available in this popular resort in Clark Philippines. Outdoor activities favored by event organizers for team building near Manila include swimming, boating, kayak, fishing, camping, cookout, bonfire and picnic. Clearwater is one of the hotels in Pampanga that offers good outdoor venues for events like team building and company outings. In fact, many event planners consider Clearwater Resort to be the best event venue near Manila and certainly the best hotel in Clark Philippines for outdoor functions and events as well as meetings and seminars also. Visitors to Clark and Angeles City Pampanga seldom pass up the opportunity to relax and unwind by the lake of this popular resort in Pampanga.

Highly recommended beach resort in North Luzon for company outings and family retreats is most frequently visited hotel in Clark Pampanga because of beautiful view and good outdoor facilities for swimming, picnic and barbecue.

Feedback from Manila travel agencies, Pampanga frequent tourists and Philippines holiday destination guides indicate a change in the criteria for selecting the best hotel in Clark Pampanga. Visitors from Manila, Cebu, Subic and Pampanga are no longer looking for luxury and convenience in their selection for a good place to stay in Clark. Instead the important factors to consider for travelers and those looking for a good resort in Clark for holidays and vacation include safety, security, clean outdoor facilities and a generally relaxing ambience that can help the guest relieve some of the stress from work in a crowed city like Manila.

Residents of Manila and Angeles City Pampanga are looking for a safe and convenient place to celebrate special occasions or take a shot vacation in the Philippines. Many travel north to Clark to swim at Clearwater Beach Resort which also has lake and picnic grounds to unwind and relax, a very good way to spend quality time with the family and children. Fine dining Yats Restaurant offers sumptuous cozy Christmas dinner, for wine lovers, Clark Wine Center provides exciting shopping options.

Even tourists and business travelers staying in hotels in Philippines Angeles Pampanga take time off from nightlife, bars and other city entertainment to enjoy a relaxing day in leisure at famous beach resort in Clark Freeport Pampanga. Foreign and local tourists visiting Clark enjoy a sense of safety while savoring the laidback lifestyle offered by famous resort hotels like Clearwater in Clark. Clearwater Resort is generally considered one of the best resorts in Pampanga.

Children enjoy the vast space while adults relax and unwind under large Acacia trees that can be found on the large picnic grounds of this top rated hotel in Clark. No wonder, this hotel in Clark is one of the most popular and frequently visited resort in Pampanga.

The safest getaway destination vacation spot near Manila convenient safe and accessible is Clearwater Beach Resort in Clark Pampanga, great for family bonding, hang out to unwind and relax near lake and trees, camping too

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

LOS ANGELES (NBC) – Savor that glass of chardonnay, and appreciate the price tag while you’re at it.
Thanks to a looming grape shortage and higher fuel prices, experts predict prices will rise on domestic wine from the West Coast.
“It’s manufacturing,” said Carolyn Craig, of the Canyon Crest Winery. “You run out of one component, you come to a stop.”
Silicon Valley Bank, a commercial banker to the wine industry, said in its latest “Annual State of the Wine Industry Report” that it expects vintners to raise prices as the supply of grapes declines.
Prices for California wines will be the first to rise, followed by wine from Oregon and Washington State, according to the report.
Grapes aren’t the only factor.
Owners have to consider the cost of getting grape juice to the winery.
“A large component of the costs of acquiring that juice is going to be transportation, so we’re very aware of fuel costs,” Craig said.
So, what’s a wine lover to do?
Experts said if you find something you like, at the price you like, consider stocking up as your own hedge against price increases.

http://www.kplctv.com/story/18161008/experts-predict-rise-in-wine-prices

Some of the good resorts in Pampanga offer beautiful outdoor picnic grounds that can be used for prenuptial pictorial and wedding photography. Wedding pictures can be taken in one of the beautiful resorts near Manila for a wedding album. Special packages and discount offerings for wedding photography, prenuptial pictorial and other photo-shoot are available at this popular wedding venue in Pampanga. In fact, Clearwater Resort is one of the best resorts in Pampanga that is lauded for its good outdoor garden wedding reception venues. Visitors to Clark and Angeles City Pampanga seldom pass up the opportunity to relax and unwind by the lake of this popular resort in Pampanga.

Visitors and tourists travelling north from Manila look for convenient location out of town to spend a few days in a family hotel with white sand beach. Clearwater Beach Resort located in Philippines Clark Freeport is a famous destination near Manila.

Spa is not the only way to unwind for people who are stressed out by Manila traffic and noise pollution.

In a city like Manila, most residents rely on visits to spa and beauty parlor to unwind and relax. But with a short getaway to Angeles City Clark Pampanga one can de-stress by enjoying beautiful outdoor amenities of this beach resort, savoring what nature can offer. Clearwater Resort & Country Club offers several styles of accommodation from US$65 up inclusive of breakfast for two at the beautiful Breakfast Garden Restaurant overlooking the large Clearwater lake and beach. This is a good rendition of the lifestyle that the Americans left behind after they left the Clark Airbase.

The best hotels in Angeles City Pampanga try to cater especially to family travelers with children. The larger resorts in Pampanga offer safe and secure outdoor picnic grounds that kids love to play in. Travelling parents arrive in Pampanga to relax and unwind by the beautiful lake in Clark. Guests of the good hotels in Clark enjoy the peace and quiet of the leisure lifestyle of Angeles City Clark Philippines. Clearwater Resort is widely recognized as a good hotel in Angeles City Philippines that offers this kind of relaxing experience. This hotel in Angeles City Clark Philippines delivers a kind of holiday experience that many visitors from Manila look for when they travel out of town from Manila on a getaway to Clark or Subic.

Highly recommended beach resort in North Luzon for company outings and family retreats is most frequently visited hotel in Clark Pampanga because of beautiful view and good outdoor facilities for swimming, picnic and barbecue.

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Best resort in Angeles City Pampanga earns recognition from Manila travel agencies and Subic tourist for being the best resort in Pampanga. Clearwater is the only resort in Angeles City Pampanga that offers safe and secure outdoor facilities for kids to enjoy the private resort while parents unwind and relax in the peaceful and calm picnic grounds of the hotel. Parents enjoy the stay in the top rated resort in Angeles City Pampanga knowing that their children are safe and enjoying themselves in the picnic grounds, Frolic garden, herb garden, beach and swimming pools of this country club resort in Clark Pampanga. Later on in the evening the whole family can gather for a nice family dinner in the fine dining Yats Restaurant or the family resto bar London Pub for a nice family dinner in Clark Pampanga. This resort in Angeles City Pampanga Clark Subic offers a good example of the laidback lifestyle that makes Clark Freeport so attractive to tourists and visitors from Manila.

Children ask their parents to bring them to the best resort hotel in Angeles City Pampanga for a treat during school breaks. In Clearwater which many regard as the best resort in Angeles City Clark Philippines, kids enjoy the outdoors some go swimming while others paddle kayaks and rowboats on the lake of this top rated hotel in Angeles City Pampanga. Parents enjoy this hotel in Angeles City Pampanga also, indulging in activities like fishing, resting and relaxing in the picnic grounds by the lake. In the evening, the whole family gathers at the best restaurant in Clark Pampanga, Yats to enjoy a sumptuous dinner, over a bottle of fine vintage wine from Clark Wine Center.

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

Even at Rudy Kurniawan’s coming-out party in September 2003, there were questionable bottles of wine.
A score of Southern California’s biggest grape nuts had gathered at the restaurant Melisse in Santa Monica that Friday for a $4,800-a-head vertical tasting of irresistible rarities provided by Kurniawan: Pétrus in a dozen vintages, reaching as far back as 1921, in magnums.
Although Pétrus is now among the most famous wines in the world, it gained its exalted status relatively recently; before World War II, it was virtually unheard of, and finding large-format bottles that had survived from the twenties bordered on miraculous. Paul Wasserman, the son of prominent Burgundy importer Becky Wasserman, is something like wine royalty, but before this event, the oldest Pétrus he had tasted was from 1975.
Nonetheless, two bottles left him scratching his head. The 1947 lacked the unctuousness of right-bank Bordeaux from that legendary vintage, and the 1961 struck him as “very young.” He briefly entertained the idea of “possible fakes”—’61 Pétrus in magnum has fetched up to $28,440 at auction—and jotted, in his notes on the ’47, “If there’s one bottle I have serious doubts about tonight, this is it.”
But in the rare-wine world, doubts are endemic; murkiness is built into a product that is concealed by tinted glass and banded wooden cases and opaque provenance and the fog of history. At the same time, the whole apparatus of the rare-wine market is about converting doubt into mystique. Most wealthy collectors want to spend big and drink famous labels, not necessarily ask questions or hear the answers. Guests at tastings don’t want to bite the hand that quenches them. Auctioneers may not want to risk losing consignments by nitpicking ambiguous bottles. Winemakers don’t like to talk about counterfeiting, for fear of the taint. Also, one thing not high on the FBI’s list of investigative priorities: billionaires getting snowed by wine forgers. It’s clear to everyone on this rarefied circuit that wine fraud is rampant. It’s also clear not many insiders feel an urgency to do anything about it.
Wasserman ended up convincing himself that the wines must be legitimate. Another guest who had tasted the ’61 many times said this one was “absolutely consistent” with his experience. And there was nothing suspect about the wines’ appearance. The colors were appropriate; the corks, even those that looked young, were plausible (it was standard historical practice for wines to be recorked). As for the hodgepodge of inks and paper types used for the labels, Wasserman wasn’t qualified to judge. But Kurniawan, usually soft-spoken and reserved, held forth with great assurance, in his lightly accented English, about the variable labeling of old Pétrus. As Wasser-man told a popular online wine board a few days later, “Rudy has become quite an expert on the subject.”
That Kurniawan had assembled such wines, and such winos, and was considered an expert at all about wine in 2003 was extraordinary, considering that just two years earlier he’d been a newbie. But in the moneyed stratosphere of hyperrare collectible wine, merely opening one’s wallet is often lionized as an act of courage or virtue.
Kurniawan has dated his wine epiphany to 2001, when, celebrating his father’s birthday at a restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, he drank a 1996 Opus One. Twenty-five at the time and living in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia, Kurniawan became enthralled, and was soon combing L.A. for the wine, quickly amassing 200 bottles. He started attending weekly tastings at the Red Carpet, a wine store in Glendale. Early the following year, at a charity auction in Paso Robles, he made a stir when, bidding on a hotly contested lot of the cult California Syrah Sine Qua Non, he simply held his paddle aloft until he won.
By the end of 2002, Kurniawan was on a classic trajectory, graduating from California wines to premier cru Bordeaux. Then he moved on, in time-honored fashion, to the apex of connoisseurship: Burgundy. Wine lovers fall hard for Burgundy. The greatest of its wines are considered singular expressions of their terroir, the region’s complexity challenges even the geekiest geek, and the wines are mostly produced in such tiny quantities that bottle-hunting can be obsessive. Allen Meadows, 33-year Burgundy collector, publisher of the Burghound newsletter, and the premier Burgundy critic in the U.S., says, “As much as I know, there’s ten times I don’t know.” Kurniawan took to it with such zeal that, says Meadows, “I’ve seen very few people learn Burgundy so fast.”
Among other things, Kurniawan was a gifted taster, someone with not only a discerning palate but also a prodigious memory—a taste library in his head. He could peg some wines “double-blind,” deducing their identities without knowing in advance that they were even among the group being served. He was soon making a splash in auction rooms, spending an estimated $1 million a month. He “cornered much of the megamarket,” auctioneer John Kapon would later say. Largely because of Kurniawan’s influence, old-wine prices rose dramatically. In 2002, a bottle of 1945 DRC Romanée-Conti sold for $2,600. Last year, one went for $124,000.

http://nymag.com/news/features/rudy-kurniawan-wine-fraud-2012-5/

Good picnic spots can be found in some of the best resorts in Pampanga. The good resorts and hotels in Clark Philippines offer safe and clean outdoor facilities for family bonding and picnics. For many reasons Manila families and residents of Angeles City Pampanga as well as Subic and Baguio consider Clearwater as one of the best resorts in Pampanga and certainly the best hotel in Clark Philippines. Guests of this child friendly resort in Clark Pampanga often relax and unwind by the beautiful lake and beach. Hotel accommodation is also available here in this resort in Clark. Function room for meetings and seminars is also available in this popular resort in Clark Philippines. This hotel in Clark is also a favorite holiday destination near Manila during Holy Week, Easter, Christmas and New Year holidays.

Pampanga is an important province of the Philippines slated to be the next business and tourism center of the country. Already international traffic prefers the Clark International Airport and tourists find Clark Freeport Zone easier to get around than Manila. Safety, low crime rate, no traffic and low pollution levels all contribute to making Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone a preferred destination for local and international tourists.

Among the best resorts and hotels in Angeles City Clark Pampanga, Clearwater offers the best outdoor facilities for leisure activities as well as the best and most secured venues for events, company outings, team building, debuts, weddings, prenuptial, planning, family retreat, school field trips and other personal and corporate functions and events. Even organizers prefer this deluxe resort in Angeles City Pampanga not only for its good facilities and event venues but also for its location which is conveniently accessible from Manila; tourists and family travelers prefer this resort in Pampanga because of safety reasons. Although this hotel in Clark is not always regarded as a luxurious resort, Clearwater Resort and Country Club is recognized as the best country club near Manila. This top rated hotel in Angeles City Pampanga is just 70 minutes drive from Manila and there is no city traffic to negotiate along the way up north.

Highly recommended beach resort in North Luzon for company outings and family retreats is most frequently visited hotel in Clark Pampanga because of beautiful view and good outdoor facilities for swimming, picnic and barbecue.

Family bonding is a regular activity in the Philippines for families living in cities like Cebu and Manila where residents experience a lot of stress from work. Many choose to travel out of town to the north for family bonding in a resort in Pampanga. Clearwater Resort is the most popular destination for family bonding as well as team building because it offers over 10 exclusive venues for events and gatherings. This resort is Pampanga is highly recommended by event organizers and trip advisories for family bonding, company outings, retreats and team building near Manila.

Even tourists and business travelers staying in hotels in Philippines Angeles Pampanga take time off from nightlife, bars and other city entertainment to enjoy a relaxing day in leisure at famous beach resort in Clark Freeport Pampanga. Foreign and local tourists visiting Clark enjoy a sense of safety while savoring the laidback lifestyle offered by famous resort hotels like Clearwater in Clark which is generally considered to be one of the best resorts in Pampanga.

Families traveling out of town go to the north to get away from Manila to unwind, relax and swim with friends and children. Highly recommended holiday spot and vacation destination this summer in the north is Clearwater Beach Resort in Clark. Clark is adjacent to Pampanga’s Angeles City which is just 70 minutes from Manila and 25 minutes from Subic.

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

That’s the hope of French luxury crystal glassmaker Baccarat, which recently began sales of its new line of glasses in Hong Kong, where wine imports have remained strong on the back of strong demand from mainland Chinese buyers even amid global economic uncertainty.
“People tend to confuse good wine with alcohol in wine, which is not what we want,” said Bruno Quenioux, technical adviser of the Chateau Baccarat collection of professional wine glasses, which went on sale in France earlier this year.
“What is complicated with wine is to get the balance between the fire and water. Get too much fire in the wine and you lose the message of the water… But if you put too much water in the fire, then the fire is dead.”
The glass has a broad base that evokes the tastevin, a saucer-like cup used by winemakers and sommeliers to taste wines, sloping sides and an unusually narrow lip at the end of a vertical “chimney” that the company says prevents the alcohol from overpowering other aromas since it sinks down when the glass is swirled prior to tasting.
“The main subject in the final stretch should no longer be the alcohol anymore, but the aromas and the bouquet the fine wines have to offer,” Quenioux told Reuters, adding that the new glass made the aroma more subtle.
“You can see the smokiness, some flowers, definitely the glass leads you to have the mineral side of the wine… When you go back to the regular glass, you have rusticity. You have something not so subtle.”
But other glassmakers disagree, saying there is still merit in time-honoured variations tailored to the different wine varieties – variations to which they have given subtle modern twists.
“I think as people start appreciating wine more, that they will appreciate a pinot glass, a cabernet glass, a shiraz glass. They’re all a little bit different,” said Suresh Kanji, a Hong Kong-based distributor for Riedel Crystal, based in Austria.
The ubiquitous Riedel has put efforts into developing different glasses for different varieties through the years and in the 1970s discovered that each separate variety had a specific DNA.
“Based on that DNA, the shape of the glass actually makes the experience for the consumer very, very different,” said Kanji.
“The big bowl – great for red wine. The smaller glasses – good for white wine… Every glass was fine-turned for the specific DNA of what you’re drinking.”
Wine experts agree that given the differences in how “forthcoming” each variety may be, proper handling of the alcohol in fine wines is key.
“Burgundy is very delicate wine, so it needs a larger surface area to release and free its aromas,” said Debra Meiburg, a Master of Wine and wine journalist.
“Burgundy (glasses) comes to quite a narrow lose at the chimney in order to capture the aroma and trap them in the glass.”
And yes, she said, the glass does matter.
“Of course any glass would work. But just as you would prefer not to drink your coffee in a paper cup, it’s always nicer to have the right quality of glass.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/15/uk-hongkong-wineglasses-idUSLNE84E00J20120515

Camping is one of the popular outdoor activities that take place in Clearwater Resort which is generally regarded as one of the best hotels in Clark Philippines. Here in this popular resort in Pampanga there is a safe and clean campsite that comes also with a private campfire ground for a complete camping experience outside of Manila. Guests and families camping at this private resort in Pampanga often enjoy outdoor facilities by the lake, the beach and picnic grounds also. Clearwater Resort is considered by schools, event organizers and social groups as one of the best campsites in the Philippines.

Enjoyable place for traveler to hang out near Manila for family bonding is Clearwater Beach Resort. This resort in Pampanga is highly recommended by event organizers and travel agencies in Philippines for holding company outings and team building outside of Manila.

Top rated destination for family reunion, bonding, retreat, picinic and getaway out of town from Manila is Clearwater Beach Resort. Frequently visited spots inside this resort in Pampanga are lake, picnic grounds; water sports, boating, swimming, kayak and camping grounds. This resort in Pampanga is very child friendly and highly suitable for family bonding near Manila.

Many travel north to Clark to swim at Clearwater Beach Resort which also has lake and picnic grounds to unwind and relax, a very good way to spend quality time with the family and children. Aside from family bonding, this resort in Pampanga is frequently visited by Manila residents for team building and company outings. Outdoor parties are often held in this resort in Pampanga during holidays such as Holy Week, Christmas and New Year.

Clark is gradually becoming famous for its dining scene. World-class fine dining restaurants, cozy family resto bars and pubs as well as comfortable wine bars are available in Angeles City Clark Pampanga. Wine shops like Clark Wine Center offers exciting shopping for wine lovers coming to buy wine in Clark Freeport. So aside from spending quality time in this resort in Pampanga, guests can also savor the lifestyle that Clark has to offer.

Residents of Manila and Angeles City Pampanga look for a safe convenient enjoyable place to enjoy swimming in Philippines. Many travel north to Clark to swim at Clearwater Beach Resort which also have lake and picnic grounds to unwind and relax for family bonding

Many visitors travelling to Clark for a short getaway from Manila to unwind and relax away from the city are pleasantly surprised to find a nice beach with white sand in Pampanga. A number of weddings took place around this area which is called the Discovery Cove of Clearwater Resort. Beach wedding ceremony takes place on the white sand and the outdoor garden reception is held for 100 to 500 in the lawn areas just meters away.

Clark Airbase, also known as Clark Field, is well known among Manila event organizers as a good place to hold parties in Pampanga. Resorts like Clearwater Resort and Country Club which is located in the central business district of Clark Freeport, Philippines are frequently used for company outings, team building, personal and corporate functions, events and parties. One of the features that event planners like about the good hotels in Pampanga is wide open, safe and clean outdoor facilities that these event venues offer. Even residents of Angeles City and Subic prefer to hold their events, gatherings, family retreat, school outings and camping trips in Pampanga.

Residents of Manila travel north to Clark Pampanga to swim at Clearwater Beach Resort, unwind and relax for family bonding at hotel lake picnic grounds. Fine dining Yats Restaurant offers sumptuous cozy Christmas dinner, for wine lovers, Clark Wine Center provides exciting shopping options.

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

While China’s wine lovers continue their obsession with French vintages, a number of local labels are determined to lead the charge to convince them that Chinese winemakers can compete with the very best there is.
Dynasty Fine Wines is based near the city of Tianjin – about a 30-minute train ride from the capital Beijing – and has established a network of around 15 vineyards across the country, which grow not only native Chinese grape species such as Dragon’s Eye but increasingly have turned to the more internationally recognized cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc varieties.

There is an “overwhelming preference for dark, tannic red wines in China” – according to the China Wines Information Website – which says this is because Chinese consumers are judging their wines less on taste and more on “what is deemed socially acceptable – or aspirational – to consume.”
To the great majority of those buying at the high-end of the wine market, that basically means vintages from the famed and historic wine growing regions of Bordeaux and Burgundy, hence French wines account for around half of China’s entire wine imports.
But the people at Dynasty want to change that kind of thinking.
The label will be out in force at the Vinexpo Asia-Pacific wine fair – to be held in Hong Kong from May 21-29 – and on show will be its high-end range of red wines.
“People prefer Louis Vuitton to domestic brands these days. The same goes with wine,” company chairman Bai Zhisheng told the South China Morning Post.
But Bai said that Dynasty’s top range of reds – which sell for around 1,400 yuan (171 euros) per bottle – would account for 30 percent of its output within five years, up from the current 10 percent, as the company increased its marketing push and its distribution.
Dynasty has no plans as of yet to tackle the international wine market and another one of China’s leading wine labels also believes that Chinese winemakers should conquer their own market before setting their sight overseas.
And it makes sense considering wine consumption in China is growing at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world, according to industry reports, and the market has grown by 20 percent over each of the past five years.
The Great Wall label has wineries at both Sanggan and Huaxia in the northern Hebei province and another near Junding in the eastern Shangdong province growing more than 10 varieties of grapes.
The state-run China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp, which owns the label, last year brought in renowned French winemaker Michel Rolland – ex of Chateau Angelus, Chateau Lascombes and Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot – to help both improve the quality of its wines and to teach a new generation of Chinese winemakers all the secrets he learned back in France.
“We have brought in the best kind of vines, but we also need a good wine maker, just as a decent restaurant needs a good chef, the company’s vice-chairman Chi Jingtao told the China Daily.
He said the company had invested heavily in established vineyards in France, Italy and Australia as it looked to produce vintages from the red grape varieties it had imported such as cabernet sauvignon.
“We will look for more high-end global acquisitions later, as the immediate priority is to have more products in the domestic market. No other market is growing as rapidly as China,” Chi said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/chinese-wine-market-grown-20-percent-wine-makers-win-back-local-taste-buds-article-1.1077996?localLinksEnabled=false

Each year in February the Philippines hot air balloon festival returns to Clark Pampanga. Visitors planning to attend this popular event in Clark opt to stay in Clearwater Resort which is considered to be the best hotel in Clark Philippines. This hotel in Clark is also a favorite holiday destination near Manila during Holy Week, Easter, Christmas and New Year holidays also. This hotel in Clark is also one of the best resorts near Manila for families to relax, unwind and enjoy the outdoor facilities of this popular resort in Clark Philippines. Even during school breaks, families would take their children to enjoy the outdoor facilities of this popular resort in Pampanga which is located quite near to Manila.

Highly recommended resort for family reunion near Manila is Clearwater Lake Hotel Clark Pampanga. This resort in Pampanga is highly recommended by event organizers and travel agencies in Philippines for holding company outings and team building outside of Manila.

Manila families with small children looking for an accessible place for kids to have fun frequently visit private resort in Clark Pampanga to unwind relax in family bonding, top venue for reunion. Planning a trip out of town with children requires selecting a good, safe and secured resort near Manila, a hotel in Pampanga that children can be safe and kids can enjoy the outdoor picnic grounds of the private resort also. Clearwater is generally regarded as the best resort in Clark Pampanga for families with children, looking for a safe and clean destination for their trips out of Manila. Clearwater Resort in Clark Pampanga is also a very popular choice by event organizers for school outings and field trips also. Companies in Manila hold their team building and company outings in one of the many event venues in this resort in Pampanga.

Best country club in Pampanga offers outdoor facilities for leisure activities in a secured hotel and deluxe resort outside Manila; located in the safe and secured location of Clark, Clearwater is regarded as a deluxe hotel in Pampanga, although not high in luxurious resort amenities, this deluxe resort in Clark offers guests a chance to enjoy many outdoor activities that kids can have fun also. Well recognized as the best club outside Manila, Clearwater did not build its reputation on luxurious facilities and high prices for resort and hotel accommodation. Instead, visitors from Manila and tourists visiting the Philippines from crowded Asian cities laud this deluxe hotel in Pampanga for its safe and secured outdoor space that allows guests, especially children, to enjoy all sorts of leisure and outdoor activities including swimming, fishing and kayaking. Many residents of Manila travel to this resort in Clark Pampanga to hold their birthday parties in one of the exclusive venues of this hotel. Most of them recommend this resort to friends as the best hotel in Clark Philippines. Birthday celebrations at Clearwater resort is always a memorable experience, one that brings guests of this well known resort near Manila back to Clark for holidays and vacations also.

Residents of Manila and Angeles City Pampanga are looking for a safe and convenient place to celebrate special occasions or take a shot vacation in the Philippines. Many travel north to Clark to swim at Clearwater Beach Resort which also has lake and picnic grounds to unwind and relax, a very good way to spend quality time with the family and children. Fine dining Yats Restaurant offers sumptuous cozy Christmas dinner, for wine lovers, Clark Wine Center provides exciting shopping options.

Family bonding can be very enjoyable this summer vacation if travelers can go north to Clark Pampanga and hang out in famous and highly recommended beach resort near Manila Clearwater near Angeles City Philippines.

There is a casual café with a beautiful view which serves good breakfast and basic lunch and dinner. Foodies can opt to drive over to Mimosa about 3 minutes away just a bit too far to walk, to have dinner at the fine-dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar. This cozy and romantic restaurant serves French Mediterranean cuisine at prices that are surprisingly affordable. For wine lovers, this restaurant in Mimosa Clark Freeport Pampanga is a treat with its award winning 3000-line wine lists that contain not only the famous labels but also connoisseurs’ choice of fine vintage wines.

Top places to go this Christmas in Manila, travel north to Clearwater Beach Resort Clark

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

The Bordeaux campaign has stuttered to life again with price releases from Chateau Margaux, Chateau Palmer, Chateau Lynch Bages and some two dozen smaller properties.
The most important release yesterday was Chateau Margaux, at €360 ex-negociant, down 40%, followed by 3rd growth Chateau Palmer, at €160, down 25.6%.
Palmer, though critically acclaimed – Steven Spurrier for Decanter called the 2011 ‘first growth quality’ – has dismayed merchants by its price.
Farr Vintners’ Stephen Browett repeated his assertion that ‘there are plenty of ready-to-drink vintages of Palmer that consumers can buy cheaper than this. Although its one of the better wines of the vintage there is no demand for it at that price.’
Palmer is with most UK merchants at £1750 a case. The 2001, to which Browett had referred as ‘ready-to-drink’, is £1200.
Other merchants were similarly gloomy. One, Will Gardener, who runs the fine wine department at Midlands merchant Nickolls and Perks, said, ‘there is no point in offering [Palmer].’
While the blue chip wines – Lafite, Margaux, Pontet Canet – are selling well, even for wines with very fine pedigrees – Palmer, Lynch Bages (€69, down from €100 last year, on the market for £750) – interest is sporadic at best.
Lynch is ‘in the doldrums’, Mark Bedini, managing director of Fine & Rare said – oddly enough, because it ‘seems reasonably priced and normally sells really well. Not this time.’
Another merchant suggested they would have expected Lynch to be cheaper than Pontet Canet, for example, which is on the market for £720 a case, and is considered ‘a superstar’.
For some, the situation is exactly as they expected. Gardener said, ‘We’re doing our best, but we’re sending out an offer every couple of days rather several times a day.’
He stressed that the wines that were selling were the well-priced ‘good drinking wines, like Batailley in Pauillac at £250 a case and Labegorce (Margaux) at £175. ‘You have to take the investment side out of it.’
In Bordeaux, negociants are putting a brave face on the situation. ‘We’ve been spoiled by the last two great vintages,’ Laurent Ehrmann at negociants Barrières Frères told Decanter.com. ‘There is frustration because we’re not selling thousands of cases in a few hours. We need to look to the long term.’
An unexpected consequence this year, for one merchant at least, is the lack of traditional buyers for a vintage that has been toted as ‘a classic drinking vintage’.
Bedini said, ‘We’re finding that our traditional buyers are staying out on the whole, which means new entrants are doing most of the buying. They are more focused on the first growths than other wines.’
Even in a previously rock-solid market – the French supermarkets – ennui seems to have set in.
Ludovic Paternotte, wine buyer for Groupe Casino, which owns a clutch of major retailers including Casino, Géant and Monoprix and buys 200m bottles a year, said Bordeaux made up 50% of his purchasing until a few years ago, but he now finds better value in Languedoc and Rhone.
‘Even for the French supermarkets, the price drops have largely not been enough. The Bordelais seem to forget that France remains their largest market.’

http://www.decanter.com/bordeaux-2011/en-primeur-coverage/529971/bordeaux-2011-margaux-palmer-and-lynch-bages-release

As Clark becomes a popular holiday and vacation destination for Manila residents as well as tourists from nearby Asian cities, Clearwater Resort welcomes more and more guests to enjoy its outdoor facilities where family bonding takes place frequently. This is one of the good hotels in Pampanga that Manila residents choose to spend their holidays and vacations simply to relax and unwind away from the stress of living and working in a city like Manila. Clearwater appears frequently on the top of a list of the best hotels in Pampanga. This hotel in Clark is regarded by many Manila residents to be one of the best resorts in Pampanga for family bonding, retreats, vacation and holidays. This hotel in Clark is also a favorite holiday destination near Manila during Holy Week, Easter, Christmas and New Year holidays.

Clark is gradually becoming famous for its dining scene. World-class fine dining restaurants, cozy family resto bars and pubs as well as comfortable wine bars are available in Angeles City Clark Pampanga. Wine shops like Clark Wine Center offers exciting shopping for wine lovers coming to buy wine in Clark Freeport.

Tourists and local residents visiting Clark Pampanga for vacation, leisure or business can contact Hotel Clark Philippines for information and assistance in booking accommodation and dining needs. Traffic flow of Angeles City Clark Philippines can be very seasonal, typical busy months being February through June, then the November and December. Hotel rooms are far less than Manila so advanced bookings are strongly recommended. Because Clark and Angeles Pampanga are conveniently accessible through the North Luzon Expressway, weather does not affect this city as much the others in Philippines. Subic is linked to Clark via the ScTex. Clark has its own international airport called DMIA.

Even tourists and business travelers staying in hotels in Philippines Angeles City take time off from nightlife, bars and other city entertainment to enjoy a relaxing day in leisure at famous beach resort in Clark Freeport Pampanga. Many visitors also come to Clark to play golf in one of the best golf courses in Pampanga. Pampanga is home to some of the finest golf courses outside of Manila.

Clark is fast gaining the reputation from frequent travelers as a highly recommended tourist destination as well as a wonderful location and vacation spots for residents of Manila and Subic.

Families are also looking for places near Manila with white sand beaches in convenient location easily accessible from Manila. Many travelers look to the north for places to swim and relax with children and friends

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

For a business that has been around for more than 8,000 years, the wine trade still manages to evolve at an impressive speed. Money, politics, climate, fashion and science are remaking that glass in your hand in ways both discreet and radical, and the speed of innovation is increasing as never before. In this changing world, power is on the move, consumers decide what goes, and the old aristocracies of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Piedmont and California are scrambling to adapt. But adapt to what? The first new rule of wine is that there shouldn’t be any rules. Here we offer a guide to the latest developments on Planet Grape.
The next great wine will come from China
China is now the world’s biggest importer of fine wine, much of it sold through Hong Kong, the new wine auction capital of the world. For today’s image-conscious Chinese, a pot of tea, or even a flask of fiery baiju spirit on the restaurant table no longer cuts the chilli sauce. A £1,500 bottle of Château Lafite rather does – even given the distressing local tendency to mix it with Coca-Cola or Fanta. Rupert Hoogewerf, the British compiler of China’s “Rich List”, nevertheless reports that: “Consumers are gradually becoming more appreciative of wine, and less driven by snobbery,” and forecasts that when the current market madness (the latest must-have vintage being Romanée-Conti 1990 at around £23,000 a bottle!) calms down, China will become a huge but mainstream wine-drinking nation.
Not that Europe’s vineyards will necessarily benefit. The first home-grown Chinese “superwine” has already arrived to both rave and apprehensive reviews. Jia Bei Lan, a silky cabernet sauvignon blend, produced in Ningxia, a central province previously best known for its goji berries, recently became the first Chinese wine to win a major international trophy. Judges at the Decanter Awards in London described the £30-a-bottle brew as “supple, graceful and ripe”, and praised its “excellent length and four-square tannins”.
…Unless it comes from England
This is a remarkable moment in the multi-millennial history of wine, and all the signs are that England will play a big part in its future. The great wine regions of France and Italy may look to have it made with their perfect summers and contented vignerons scoffing confit de canard on shady bistro terraces. It won’t stay like that for long, though, because the real wine action is heading for somewhere south of Basingstoke.
By the end of this century, on expert projections, southern England will have the ideal climate for wine making, and the overheated vineyards of France will be producing the kind of delinquent plonk currently served up in pizza bars. According to Gregory Jones, one of the world’s foremost wine climatologists: “The best conditions for, say, chianti, will be in Germany and Belgium, and those for making fine bordeaux-style wines will be in the English Home Counties.” The movement is already under way. Vine cultivation in England has soared by 40 per cent over the past five years, and last month work began at Rathfinny in East Sussex, an estate that is projected to become, by 2017, England’s biggest vineyard. Its owner, former hedge fund boss Mark Driver, left the City to pursue his dream of creating “the British Bollinger”, and confidently forecasts that England will soon be setting the global standard.
Other challenges to the old hegemony are arising everywhere from the Middle East, where, despite such hindrances as war and Islamic proscription, wine is undergoing a renaissance, to Eastern Europe, where cult wines from Georgia, Russia and even Kosovo are hitting the market.
‘Terroir’ means nothing
Wine’s current war of liberation (as the romantic school of oenology likes to see it) is being fought against an establishment steeped in ancient, but frequently suspect, nostrums.
A favourite one is the French concept of “terroir” which roughly translates as “sense of place”. The basic shtick is that grapes growing on a picturesque slope beside, say, the River Saône, will taste detectably different from those growing a quarter of a mile away, let alone in Chile or Bulgaria.
Viticulturalists increasingly regard this not only as bunkum, but as a cover-up for bad wine making. What really matters is the quality of the grapes and the skill of the winemaker. The terroir myth has, nevertheless, worked astonishingly well to maintain the perceived specialness of traditional wine areas. Now its credibility is collapsing: “Terroir,” says the wine writer Malcolm Gluck, “is utter b——-.”
The ‘Frankengrape’ is lovelier than it sounds
Wine buffs don’t like to admit it, but the world’s main grape types – cabernet, chardonnay, merlot, riesling et cetera – are, essentially, the same thing. All are descendants of a single species, Vitis vinifera, which was domesticated in Asia Minor in ancient times, and slowly spun off into the varieties we know today.
The problem is that these otherwise estimable vines have lost their appetite for sex. According to groundbreaking recent research by Prof Sean Myles, a geneticist at Cornell University in California, the industry’s centuries-old obsession with “varietal purity” has fatally weakened the plants’ gene structures, destroying their natural resistance and making them increasingly vulnerable to infections and changes in atmospheric conditions.
The growers’ stopgap answer has been to bombard their vineyards with ever-larger doses of chemicals, but such practices will be mostly banned by the European Union from next year. The only real answer, says Myles, is Frankengrape — genetically engineered vine varieties with built-in immunity to the many pests and diseases that tend to afflict such highly-strung plants. The problem is that the wines of the future are likely to taste different. And that is a tough thing for classicists to swallow.
It’s always worth spellchecking the label
For all the flowery prose that garlands the subject of wine, the fact remains that even the greatest palates of the age find it impossible to consistently identify the good stuff. Tales abound in the trade of blind tastings where experts have proclaimed planted glasses of plonk to be the products of fabled châteaux, while dismissing the finest vintages as undrinkable. Along with the reluctance of prominent collectors to admit to being fooled, all this plays beautifully into the hands of today’s sophisticated wine fraudsters.
Con artistry is nothing new. The oldest and simplest racket is to slap a fancy label on a bottle of something ordinary. Today, though, with a global wine market worth billions, the ruses are becoming more and more ingenious. Counterfeiters can produce near-perfect copies of bottles, corks, capsules and boxes complete with forged paperwork attesting to authenticity.
In China, where loss of face is fatal, fraud has grown to what one expert calls “jaw-dropping levels”. Even in the United States, where collectors are far more willing to report sharp practice, there have been dozens of scams. In a current lawsuit, the billionaire Bill Koch, an avid collector, claims he has been defrauded by up to $5 million. (The dealer selling to him, Rudy Kurniawan, was tripped up by a bottle of Domaine Ponsot he tried to sell at auction in 2008 which was passed off as having been made in 1929; the winemaker didn’t begin estate bottling until 1934.)
But the rip-offs aren’t all at the high end of the market. Last year thousands of counterfeit bottles of Britain’s bestselling brand, Jacob’s Creek, turned up on grocery store shelves in Greater London. The fraudsters, however, gave themselves away with an elementary spelling error on the label, which read “Wine of Austrlia”. Perhaps it really does rot the brain.
Have wine, will travel
For the lady who doesn’t want to be seen tottering out of Oddbins with a bottle under her arm, here’s the ingenious new Volére wine handbag. Styled to resemble one of those chichi Milanese shoulder bags, it holds 750ml of Italian red, white or rosé, which can be accessed by a discreetly concealed side-tap. Premiered earlier this year by the Californian wine retailer Volére, the bags, sadly, are not yet on sale outside the US, but the enthusiastic reception that has greeted them hints at how far the market is moving beyond the idea of wine in conventional glass bottles.
Later this year, the world’s first recyclable paper wine bottle should begin appearing on Britain’s supermarket shelves. The brainchild of the inveterate Suffolk-based inventor Martin Myerscough, the bottle gets around its most obvious difficulty with the help of a thin foil “bladder”.
Myerscough, who has set up a company, Greenbottle, to market the design, claims its carbon footprint is 10 per cent of a glass bottle’s, and that it can be tossed on a compost heap when finished. “We’ve done a lot of testing with consumers,” he says, “and people are pretty happy with it.”
Wines have star signs too
The hottest new trend in wine is “biodynamics”, although those trumpeting it happily admit that the idea has been around for decades. It flows from a belief that mysterious energy forces, cosmic rhythms, lunar movements and natural earth patterns can make what is grown “vibrate in harmony with the universe”.
The standard theory is based on the work of the Austrian “spiritual scientist” Rudolf Steiner, who outlined his ideas to broad scepticism in the Twenties. Modern winemakers have proved more enthusiastic, though. Steiner’s foremost disciple, the famed Loire grower Nicolas Joly, is prone to baffling hard-nosed buyers’ conferences by saying things like: “For a vine, spring is the victory of sun forces over earth forces. In autumn the law of death comes into force.” It’s hard to argue with his wines, though.
Alcohol is not compulsory
Blame it on faddism, the nanny state or good sense, but the days of those limb-numbing, oak-soaked, beast-in-a-bottle wines are numbered. Last year sales of lower-alcohol wines rose by 66 per cent in the UK.
The trend towards sky-high booze levels really began with the New World wine invasion, led by Australian shirazes and chardonnays that regularly weighed in at 15% abv. Today, “lifestyle concerns” are reversing it. Sainsbury’s is committed to doubling its sales of lower-alcohol wines by 2020, “and we intend to reduce average alcohol content across the board”, says a spokesman.
… And nor are grapes
Although the European Union, with characteristic lack of imagination, stipulates that anything describing itself as “wine” must be made from fermented grapes, there is an expanding school of freethinkers which feels otherwise. China already markets a popular fish wine, described as “zingy with overtones of squid”, while the Los Angeles Times recently reported on the popularity of cannabis wine among California’s middle-class baby boomers. The brew is made – allegedly behind the scenes by some of the state’s premium vintners – by dropping a pound of marijuana into a full cask of fermenting cabernet or zinfandel. Sadly, Britain’s sole act of rebellion is buying a bottle of sweet elderflower from the W.I.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/9269414/The-new-rules-of-wine.html

Good hotel accommodation in Clark is available for Manila residents and tourists looking for good resorts in Pampanga for vacations and holidays in Philippines. Clearwater Resort is one of the best resorts in Pampanga that is lauded by Manila residents for its safe and clean outdoor facilities that are perfect for family bonding or for stressed out Manila residents to relax and unwind during a weekend in the north. Many guests of this hotel in Clark Pampanga enjoy fishing in the lake or their fishing pond located next to the outback tents hotel accommodation. Clearwater appears frequently on the top of a list of the best hotels in Pampanga. Function room for meetings and seminars is also available in this popular resort in Clark Philippines.

Highly recommended beach resort in North Luzon for company outings and family retreats is most frequently visited hotel in Clark Pampanga because of beautiful view and good outdoor facilities for swimming, picnic and barbecue.

Families traveling out of town go to the north to get away from Manila to unwind, relax and swim with friends and children. Highly recommended holiday spot and vacation destination this summer in the north is Clearwater Beach Resort in Clark. Clark is adjacent to Pampanga’s Angeles City which is just 70 minutes from Manila and 25 minutes from Subic. Many visitors also come to Clark to play golf in one of the best golf courses in Pampanga. Pampanga is home to some of the finest golf courses outside of Manila.

New camping sites and picnic grounds in Philippines are now added to Clark for family outings in outside Manila. The best campsites are located at Yats Clearwater Resort & Country Club in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines. Just bring camping equipment and enjoy the fun and ambience of outdoor living camping in Clark under safe, secured and clean conditions. Outdoor activities include swimming and water sports, boating and paddling a kayak, lawn tennis, golf, shooting range and all sorts of leisure activities including colonial games like croquet and horseshoe.

Clearwater Resort & Country Club offers several styles of accommodation from US$65 up inclusive of breakfast for two at the beautiful Breakfast Garden Restaurant overlooking the large Clearwater lake and beach. This is a good rendition of the lifestyle that the Americans left behind after they left the Clark Airbase. A good short description of this lifestyle is suburban laid-back slow-paced clean living, very suitable for tourists and guests looking for a way to unwind from the stress of living in Manila. This resort in Pampanga is generally regarded as the best destination for family bonding, company outings and team building near Manila also.

In a city like Manila, most residents rely on visits to spa and beauty parlor to unwind and relax. But with a short getaway to Angeles City Clark Pampanga one can de-stress by enjoying beautiful outdoor amenities of this beach resort, savoring what nature can offer.

This day-trip destination and vacation spot near Manila is secure, convenient, safe and accessible from Manila and other Asian cities. Clearwater Beach Resort located in Clark Pampanga, is a private resort hotel that is great for family bonding as well as team building. Families with children also can hang out in tranquil stress-free environment and then to unwind and relax near lake and trees. Other families organize camping and overnight family outings in this top rated hotel resort near Manila, in Angeles City, Pampanga, Clark Philippines.

Tourists and families with kids from Manila looking for good place for birthday parties in Pampanga frequently visit Clearwater, well known as the best resort in Clark Pampanga. This hotel in Clark Pampanga is frequently reserved for birthday parties, kiddy parties and other birthday celebrations in Pampanga. Manila residents as well as those living in Subic and Angeles City Pampanga prefer to hold their birthday parties in Clearwater Resort. This resort in Pampanga is a highly recommended venue for personal and corporate functions and events near Manila.

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)

A reader and his wife, who buy cases of wine through a club membership, recently told me they were dismayed that so many bottles are now topped with screw caps. They said that each case they received was evenly divided between red and white wines, and of the six whites, four usually have screw caps instead of corks.
“With our last shipment we even got one red with a screw top. Is this usual? It seems rather cheap to me,” the husband said in an email. “I miss the cork and the joy of popping open a bottle.”
I think most wine drinkers would agree that they enjoy the celebratory cork-popping ritual. But while screw caps once were associated with cheap wine, they are more frequently appearing on higher-priced bottles.
Wineries say screw caps protect their wines from “cork taint,” in which a chemical called TCA (2,4,6-trichloroanisole) creates an unpleasant odor that smells like a damp basement, moldy newspaper or a wet dog. The wine is then considered “corked” or “corky.” Depending on whose statistics you believe, cork taint ruins 1.5 percent to 8 percent of wines.
The move to protect better wines with screw caps started about 12 years ago with a group of Australian winemakers who believed the inconsistency of cork was affecting the quality of their Clare Valley rieslings. A year or so later, in 2001, producers in Marlborough, New Zealand, created the “New Zealand Screwcap Wine Seal Initiative.” The group started a scientific study that went on to show that screw caps are superior to cork for sealing wine. Today, most wines from Australia and New Zealand, including some priced at more than $100, are bottled with screw tops.
Last year, the Hogue Cellars, a major Washington State winery, announced it was converting all of its wine, including its premium Genesis and Reserve labels, to screw caps. The decision was based on five years of research comparing Saranex-lined screw caps with other types of closures. Dow Chemical’s Saranex is a layered plastic film that contains Saran resin (think food wrap).
The study found that wines aged under Saranex-lined screw caps tasted better than those topped with aluminum or tin-lined screw caps or synthetic closures. This was Hogue’s second screw cap study. The findings of its first study, released in 2004, compared natural cork, synthetic closures and screw caps, and found that wines bottled under screw caps were cleanest and best retained fruit flavors.
Still, I admit that I cringe when I’m dining at a better restaurant and the waiter ceremoniously shows me the label, then unscrews the cap. That just seems wrong.
But perhaps Harry Peterson-Nedry of Oregon’s Chehalem Wines had a point when he discussed the winery’s increasing use of screw caps. “I view this move a little like going from vinyl to CDs in music,” he wrote in a 2004 newsletter. “Even if we still have a turntable (read corkscrew) for romance and old times’ sake, we’ll seek digital purity in the long run — startlingly bright and clear, as if in the concert hall, without scratches, hiss and warping in the sun.”

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Clearwater is one of the hotels in Pampanga that offers good outdoor venues for events like team building and company outings. Manila event organizers look for good resorts near Manila to hold outdoor functions and events for clients. Many event planners choose Clearwater because it is located in Clark. This is one of the best event venues near Manila. There are over 10 outdoor private event venues in Clearwater resort suitable for groups of 50 to 3000 participants. Clearwater Resort is generally recognized by event planners as the best event venue in Clark Pampanga. Clearwater appears frequently on the top of a list of the best hotels in Pampanga. Camping is one of the popular outdoor activities that take place in Clearwater Resort which is generally regarded as one of the best hotels in Clark Philippines.

Manila residents often find the need for a getaway excursion to relax and unwind away from the stress of living in the city. Many families travel to the north to look for beautiful places in Pampanga that offer holiday packages. Good hotels and resorts near Manila offer attractive holiday packages that include hotel accommodation as well as all the meals. One of the best hotels in Pampanga is Clearwater Resort which is located in Clark, Philippines a holiday destination that is well regarded by travel agencies and tourists as one of the safest and cleanest cities in the Philippines.

Top Beach Resort in the North is Clearwater in Pampanga Clark Philippines. This resort in Pampanga is also a popular choice of venue among event organizers and facilitators for team building and company outings.

The best getaway destination vacation spot near Manila convenient safe and accessible is Clearwater Beach Resort in Clark Pampanga. Top rated destination for family reunion, bonding, retreat, picnic and getaway out of town from Manila is Clearwater Beach Resort; frequently visited spots are lake, picnic grounds; water sports, boating, swimming, kayak, camping; child friendly. Many visitors also come to Clark to play golf in one of the best golf courses in Pampanga. Pampanga is home to some of the finest golf courses outside of Manila. Guests of the resorts in Pampanga can make arrangements to enjoy a game in one of the championship golf courses in Clark Philippines.

Travel agencies and travel guides agree that the best hotel in Clark Pampanga is one that offers a good rendition of the lifestyle that Clark Philippines is famous for. Generally regarded as the best hotel in Angeles city and Clark Pampanga by tourists and visitors from Manila and Subic, Clearwater Resort and Country Club gained popularity among family travelers especially those with kids. This popular hotel is preferred by tourists that are concerned with safety and security in the choices of accommodation when they visit the Philippines.

Top rated destination for family reunion, bonding, retreat, team building, picnic and getaway out of town from Manila is Clearwater Beach Resort; frequently visited spots are lake, picnic grounds; water sports, boating, swimming, kayak, camping; child friendly. Many visitors also come to Clark to play golf in one of the best golf courses in Pampanga. Pampanga is home to some of the finest golf courses outside of Manila.

Residents of Manila and Angeles City Pampanga are looking for a safe and convenient place to celebrate Christmas this year in Philippines. Many travel north to Clark to swim at Clearwater Beach Resort which also has lake and picnic grounds to unwind and relax, a very good way to spend Christmas holidays with the family and children. Fine dining Yats Restaurant offers sumptuous cozy Christmas dinner, for wine lovers, Clark Wine Center provides exciting shopping options.

Many are surprised to find a white sand beach so near Manila right in the heart of Pampanga, just 70 minutes from Manila. The white beach in Clark Pampanga’s Clearwater Beach Resort is becoming well known to frequent visitors to Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone. Even residents of Subic travel to Clark via ScTex to spend a day in relaxation in the beach, lake and picnic grounds of Clearwater Resort & Country Club, a project of Hong Kong-based Yats International.

Places to go in Pampanga, visit the private resort in Clark Philippines, kids enjoy Clearwater Resort the most; conveniently located near Manila and Subic. Field Trip Destination near Manila and the best venue for school outings and family picnics is Clearwater Resort located in Angeles City, Clark Philippines. Clearwater is Pampanga’s tourist attraction that many consider to be the best tourist destination in the north. Many visitors from Manila agree that this well known resort in Clark is one of the places to visit whenever they travel to the north for holiday or to attend an event. Many travel agencies and tourist groups already know of Clearwater Resort as a good hotel in Clark Pampanga, a good place to stay when visiting Subic, Angeles City and Clark Philippines.

For inquiries and bookings, Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort for inquiries and reservations now

Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
(045) 889-5151 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177
Joanne or Jeremy or Loydha

Getting to this lake and beach resort in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway MA Roxas, passing the stand-along wine shop called Clark Wine Center on the right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, one will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on the right just 200m down.

Family Bonding by the famous lake of Clark Pampanga

http://www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 Rea or Chay

Email: Inquiry@ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Please click here to contact Clearwater Resort to reserve a venue for your upcoming event now

Wedding couples looking for wedding reception venues and beach wedding venues can log on to this Philippines Wedding Venue web site for free information and assistance:

http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

While in Clark, it might be a good idea to enjoy an evening of wine-and-dine in the fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar that features an award winning 2700-line wine list. It is located in Mimosa Leisure Estate of Clark Freeport Zone. For more information, visit http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

YATS Leisure Philippines is a developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine shops in Clark Angeles Philippines http://www.YatsLeisure.com

While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Looking for famous tourists spots, places to visit and see, relax and unwind in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines? You may want to check out these sites also:

http://www.LondonPubClark.com

http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

http://www.YatsWineCellars.com

For jobs and business investment opportunities in the Philippines please visit http://www.yilp.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151 or 0927-940-2669 ask for Loydha

0915-542-6250 (Jeramie)