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Indian wineries learn from the French
Indian wine producers stand to benefit from scientific and viticultural research carried out in Bordeaux in their quest to make better Indian wines. Read more here
Month: November 2014
Features
Top 10 Wines Revealed. What you should be drinking
Wine Spectator reveals its Top 100 wines of 2014. While no Indian wine is on the list this time, there are certainly some other interesting selections. Each year, Wine Spectator editors survey the wines reviewed …
Features
Yellow Tail Founder Charged in Drug Ring
One of the founders of Yellow Tail has found himself in a spot of trouble. Marcello Casella, the youngest brother in Australia’s largest family-owned winery, Casella Wines, is alleged to be part of the criminal …
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Beychevelle to showcase winemaking with glass-walled winery
Chateau Beychevelle is to build a winery housed almost entirely by glass to allow visitors and passers-by to see behind the scenes at the fourth growth St Julien estate. Read more here.
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Wine by the Glass Goes High-End
Wine drinkers looking to order by the glass usually have limited choices, especially for high-end or hard-to-find vintages, but hotels are expanding their single-serving pours because of the Coravin, a wine preservation tool introduced last …
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The Best Christmas Wines
The holidays are the perfect time to pull out your favorite bottles. Wall Street Journal wine columnist Will Lyons puts together his case for Christmas. Read more here.
Columns
Wine Folly produces the Best Wine Infographic!
If you’re new to wine and are intimidated by the subject, there maybe no better way to get introduced to this world than by a Wine Infographic. Wine Folly produced one such wine infographic which …
Events
Watch out for SulaFest 2015
Entering its 8th edition in February next year, SulaFest – the annual extravaganza of Sula Wines promises to be a bigger and better festival than ever before with an impressive international artist line-up. SulaFest is …
Events
Celebrating India’s Finest Wines
Besides winning accolades worldwide, Indian wines are being increasingly celebrated in their own country with wine challenges and competitions proliferating, pioneered by the first Indian organised wine competition by Sommelier India way back in 2009 …
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Wine, Women and Words
3 November 2014: This October, it was the third Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in Kasauli, but the second attended by Sommelier India. The wine was as good as the year before, especially the Sula Sauvignon …
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Wine Society of India event hosted by Steven Spurrier
Steven Spurrier, one of the world’s most influential wine critics (and Sommelier India columnist) flew into Mumbai on the 5th of November to conduct a “one-night only” event with The Wine Society of India, of …
Events
7th Indian Sommelier Championship gathers speed
The 7th Indian Sommelier Championship is gathering speed as the excitement builds up with the Mumbai chapter concluded a short while ago. Now all eyes are turned towards Delhi. The training that primes candidates for …
Events
Chilean Food & Wine Fest: long awaited & much enjoyed
Entering its 5th year, the Chilean food and wine festival held at the Crystal Room of The Lalit Hotel in New Delhi (pictured, left) saw a full house. The event was more special this year …