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In his latest column for Business Standard, Sommelier India contributor Alok Chandra discusses the need for policy changes in the Indian wine industry. Quite simply speaking Indian and foreign wines are far too expensive in …

Indian wine is certainly traveling. The most recent example is that Indian wine is being served to attendees of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Read how India is being positioned as …

Pairing food and wine is not just a challenge when it comes to Indian food. Chinese food is also difficult to pair. Here are a few tips that may help. We’re not sure whether this …

Sommelier India contributor, Magandeep Singh covered a Wine Society dinner for the Financial Express recently. The event attended by Adam Strum, the publisher of Wine Enthusiast magazine with whom Sommelier India had conducted an interview …

According to the results of tests conducted at the University of California, Davis, cheese dulls the taste of red wine, making it difficult to discern different flavours. Dr Hildegard Heymann, who led the research, found …

Did you know that wine consumption in India increases by 50% during the winter months? This is largely because of the festivals like Diwali, Christmas and New Years. However, another factor at play is that …

Wine has many uses and Indian actress Raveena Tandon showed the world one of them at a New Years party. She poured wine on husband distributor Anil Thadani’s ex-wife Natasha Sippy, in full public view …

In an article for Business Standard, Sommelier India contributor Alok Chandra, recently discussed how wine consumption in India is going to grow exponentially over the next five years. He also predicted that the number of …

Sanjay Menon of Sansula has written a guide to serving and sipping wine for the Indian Express. He covers which wines to serve, how much to purchase and what food to match the wines with.

“We established a wine bar between Pune and Nasik and it’s surprising to see a guy in a dhoti-kurta drinking wine next to a merchant banker in a suit! It just goes to show that …

Alok Chandra (a Sommelier India contributor) has written a piece for Business Standard on Robert Parker, the king of wine. If you want to learn about Robert Parker, read his article or better still buy …

Wine is known to release flavours in food that would otherwise not be experienced. Chef Alok Anand of The Imperial, New Delhi, offers a simple recipe for duck breasts with red wine. (Editor’s Note: Each …

In India, the per capita consumption of wine is as low as 4.5ml per person per year. In contrast to this, France consumes 42 litres per person per year, Italy 50 litres and China 375 …

Dr. Jorge Heine, who is the Ambassador of Chile to India sat down with Subash Arora of the Delhi Wine club to talk about the Chilean wine industry recently. You can find the in depth …

In an interesting article for Business Standard, Alok Chandra talks about the different types of wine drinkers namely the enthusiasts, the traditionalists, the image seekers, savvy shoppers, satisfied sippers, and the overwhelmed drinkers. He explains …

The quest for the perfect wine glass has become the wine connoisseur’s holy grail. It is no longer a matter only of aesthetic discernment or social snobbery but it must also be a serious means …

In September I visited the Chianti Colli Fiorentini area which literally means Chianti of the Florentine Hills which covers 11 per cent of the overall Chianti area. “Vinum Florentinum, known since the first centuries of …