Will India ever get a genuine wine culture? This is the 64-dolour question often asked, forlornly, by oenophiles. And the short answer to that is that it all depends on Auntie Kutti. Wine faces a …
A question for wine geeks. Have you tasted Côt? Auxerrois? Pressac, maybe? You have. You probably know it by its more commonly used name, Malbec. But like Malbec’s more obscure names, few are familiar with …
Sovna Puri enjoys a real life tasting of French wines in Mumbai. These eight months have been as strange and surreal for you as for me, right? I mean, no outings with friends and family, working …
No, I am not about to present an apologia for uninhibited indulgence in wine to while away the mind numbing hours of the lockdowns: quite the contrary in fact. I am here to propagate …
My cellar is 90% European – of which 70% is French, and in turn, 35% of that is claret. Even before knowing how long ‘lockdown’ would be, I decided to go “off piste” for evening …
And then came Covid-19… The pandemic has corked the wine business in India – at least for six months to a year Whenever the world talks about the Indian wine business, it is politely described …
Which Wine? Twenty for 2020 Which wine should I drink is a question I am asked more often than I can say. So, as we step into the New Year, here is my list of …
What are the chefs of Vana Retreat in Dehradun doing in the Engadine Valley in Switzerland? Renu Chahil-Graf unearths the story behind this strange happenstance… The story emerged during an interview with the General Manager …
With the Modi juggernaut powering back to a thumping majority in the recent Lok Sabha elections, what does this presage for the wine industry in India? As everybody knows, alcoholic beverages are a state subject …
When might a wine producer not want to make the best possible wine? Now. Now particularly. All over the world winemakers are more obsessed than ever with terroir, with the way geography can shape how …
Sommelier Charles Donnadieu at The Lalit New Delhi tells Reva K Singh that the profession of a sommelier is recognised around the world… Charles Donnadieu earned a Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management from International Hotel …
Quarciabella Camartina IGT 2010 A Super Tuscan wine on par with the finest Super Tuscans from the region, Camartina is produced from three tiny vineyards in limited quantities with just 3,500 bottles per hectare from …
I sometimes stop to think how many people (beyond the rosy statistics) consider wine to be important to their lifestyles? An editorial in a UK publication stated that we wine writers deal with, arguably, a …
April 2016 If you were thinking of throwing wine on a person’s face will the quality of the wine in your hand determine whether you would actually go ahead with the act? asks Raghu Bahadur …
In March I gave several talks in Tokyo to Japan’s exceptionally numerous and exceptionally polite wine lovers in which I extolled the newfound virtues of English sparkling wine, writes Jancis Robinson in her column in …
What is a wine worth and what is its pricing formula? Is it a measure of quality or market dynamics? Michael Fridjhon raises some interesting questions on wine prices and the Cape Wine Industry in …
Who will make the first wine in China that seriously challenges the world’s finest? Many a Chinese wine producer has that aim, and I have so far tasted a handful of wines (mostly, perhaps coincidentally, made …
Enoteca by Madhuloka is a wine store that is a notch above the rest, writes Kaveri Ponnapa With 16 years’ experience marketing spirits in a largely self-propelled Indian market, Madhuloka’s K S Lokesh was quick to recognize that wine consumption was going to follow a …
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