Did you know that George Clooney has given Tom Cruise Filipino-made fruit wines as wedding gift?
This is a fact that Filipino wine makers should be proud of, for in spite of France, Italy, and Spain, the world’s top three wine exporters, Clooney has chosen the Mijiah Tropical Fruit Wines of Elbert Pigtain, a multi-awarded Filipino fruit wine exporter.
He started the Tropical Fruit Winery Corp. and Oriental Synergies Export Corp. in 2003. And even though the Philippines is not known as a wine producing country, he has been able to ship his bignay (wild berry) wine, duhat (plum) wine, guyabano (sour sop) wine, mango wine, as well as fruit preserves and syrups in high end-markets in U.S. and Europe.