<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7352a524-47e2-48e6-9740-48f14e641771/20C4C392-ADAA-4F1D-85F4-95796BB4C1CE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301682.html?wpisrc=newsletter" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301682.html?wpisrc=newsletter" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301682.html?wpisrc=newsletter"><P> Here in the heart of <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/France?tid=informline" linkindex="128">France</A>'s Champagne region, the rising price of champagne is causing a sinking feeling about U.S. sales this month and next, when Americans traditionally make most of their purchases. With the declining dollar and gloomy economic feelings, champagne sales were already down more than 12 percent in the first half of this year, and officials say the remainder of the year looks equally grim. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301682.html?wpisrc=newsletter"> Sales to <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Russia?tid=informline" linkindex="146">Russia</A> rose 158 percent and to <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/China?tid=informline" linkindex="147">China</A> by 74 percent in the first six months of the year, according to CIVC data. The data prove that, economically speaking, when America sneezes, the rest of the globe no longer gets a cold.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301682.html?wpisrc=newsletter">If I sell a little less in the U.S., I sell a little more in <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/India?tid=informline" linkindex="148" set="yes">India</A> -- market share means nothing to me," said Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, 54, owner of Champagne Taittinger, a legendary house that has been making champagne since 1735. "We live in a global world."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/20C4C392-ADAA-4F1D-85F4-95796BB4C1CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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