Monday,September 1: The long drawn out drama of new labelling regulations shows no signs of abating. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has made it mandatory for imported foods and alcoholic beverages …
Vishal Kadakia of Wine Park, a wine merchant in India with a penchant for importing high quality hand-crafted wines, recently put to test the blind tasting prowess of Indian wine and beverage professionals, over a …
August 28, 2014 – It is a well-known fact that the US wine drinking market is the largest in the world. And, with growing consumer confidence and an increasing number of drinkers switching from other …
The Bangalore Wine Club (BWC) is all set to unveil the next edition of the Indian Wine Village on August 31, 2014 at the ITC Gardenia. As the event is taking place after a gap …
Saturday, August 24 – Print and digital publications are abuzz with news about prohibition in Kerala. A few days ago, the Congress-led United Democratic Front government finalised the excise policy proposing to make Kerala alcohol-free …
If you have never visited California’s wine country, Sommelier India‘s three-part series by Mira Advani Honeycutt will put sand in your shoes (as the saying goes) and make you want to visit! September also happens …
This June my husband and I spent four memorable days touring the vineyards of Bodegas Torres in Catalonia, Spain. I’ve enjoyed Torres wines on numerous occasions and met Miguel A Torres, patriarch of the family, …
Over the years, the word “gastronomy” has seen the most dramatic transformation. Simple food has become a science, art and wizardry. Even staid places that serve fancy fare are no longer boring. There’s an element …
The 7th Indian Sommelier Championship, the authoritative platform for wine professionals to showcase their skills is back. Conducted every year by the Institute of Wine + Beverage Studies – India’s first and only recognised wine …
Following the Indian white wines that the Sommelier India Tasting Panel brought to you in the last edition, this time it was the turn of the reds. The vintages we tasted ranged from 2011 to …
With a nine-course tasting menu, you can still pair wine in the traditional way, but as eating habits have changed so should wine pairing. Read more here.
Wine, an innocuous alcoholic beverage with the best associations around the world of the finer things in life, celebrations and camaraderie, routinely gets a bad name in India with the wrong connotations. The misrepresentation is …
Until recently, the storage and service of liquor was my husband’s domain, at least until we moved from spirits to wine when I took over. However, I have to admit, I still prefer that my …
Liquor prices in Tamil Nadu are likely to rise by 15% to 25% according to recent news reports, due to the fact that Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac), the monopoly liquor wholesaler-cum-retailer, is all …
In current news reports, Raymond Bickson, 59, will step down as the managing director and chief executive officer of Tata group controlled Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), which operates the Taj Group of hotels, at …
Rudy Kurniawan, once celebrated in the world of fine wines, concocted fake rare vintages in his kitchen and sold them for tens of millions of dollars. Read the story in the London Telegraph
Benjamin Vigier studied International Business (specialising in trade with Asia) at the University of Le Havre in France before moving to China in 2004 to work at the French Consulate of Wuhan. A year later, …
Pairing the right wine with your food is a perennial worry for wine novitiates. But it shouldn’t be, because this is one of those areas in which there are no fixed rules. There was a …
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