Wine-making in the Cordilleras
February 5, 2005Lynn Madalang of EBGAN, a Bontoc-based NGO dedicated to helping the women and youth of the Cordillera, tells me that they are working on setting up a wine-making establishment somewhere near Sagada. They intend to make strawberry, raspberry, and blackberry wine, which retail for about P100/bottle in the markets along the Halsema highway. (She tells me that the raspberry wines are the best tasting). Lynn says that only 30% of all strawberries harvested - that is, only the good looking straweberries - make it to the markets of Baguio. The remaining 70% is either thrown away or used to make jam. The going rate for these “uglier” strawberries is about P10/kilo, and can be used to make 200 bottles of strawberry wine. That’s a potential P20T in sales for P10 in raw materials!
Lynn plans to set up a cooperative and is in need of project-funding as well as help in the packaging/distribution of the wine. Interested parties should contact her at <048ebgan@mozcom.com>. EBGAN’s phone number is 074 4470022.
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