Reach for a Rosé
Indian wines are catching up on the global scene, which is paralleled with the growth of rosés. Our climate and culinary preferences make rosé wines an…
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10 Indian Reserve Red Wines to Buy
A Reserve is a celebration of all the effort that goes into making a wine. This time around, the Sommelier India Tasting Panel revealed some of…
De Bortoli Wines back in India with Prestige Wines & Spirits
De Bortoli, a third generation family-owned winery, has re-entered the Indian market through Prestige Wines and Spirits. De Bortoli was established in 1928 by Vittorio and Giuseppina De Bortoli who emigrated to Australia…
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…
Cava vs Champagne blind tasting
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…
Drink Pink this season – and into the New Year
With more choice available locally, I’m now hooked on pink wine. There’s something about a Rosé. Neither white nor red but ranging in colour from…
Great Grüner Veltliner – The New York Tasting 2013
Le Bernardin in New York recently staged a vertical tasting of 32 Gruner Veltiners for the crème de la crème of the international wine scene.…
Know your Sparklers with help from SI’s Tasting Panel
Come Tuesday, 27th August, 2013, and the Sommelier India Tasting Panel (SITP) will get together for a blind tasting of sparkling wines to assess the…
When in doubt between Red or White, reach for a Rosé
The Sommelier India Tasting Panel has done your homework. This Valentine’s Day, treat your loved one to a rosé wine from our selection.The quality of…
Great Indian Wine Tasting Results from Sommelier India
SITP’s top three wines of the tasting in the white, red and rosé category were Fratelli Chardonnay, Grover Cabernet Sauvignon and Sula Zinfandel. The surprise…
What the Tasting Panel Had to Say about Indian Wines
The Great Indian Wine Tasting was the success it was because of the quality of the tasters on the Panel. They gave it credibility along…
The Great Indian Wine Tasting. Results next week
The much-awaited Great Indian Wine Tasting is finally here. On Sunday, 4 November 2012, the Sommelier India Tasting Panel will meet at the Claridges Hotel,…
SI Tasting Panel tastes Chilean wines available in India
SITP meet 30 August 2012: The good news for lovers of Pinot Noir is that they can happily look beyond Burgundy. With Burgundian Pinot Noirs…
Sommelier India Tasting Panel Wine Dinner
On July 25, 2012, Sommelier India Editor, Reva K. SIngh hosted an exclusive wine dinner at 360°, The Oberoi, New Delhi, for the SI Tasting…
Sommelier India tasting panel: Luca & Fratelli
It seems that new wineries are cropping up in India as quickly as Bollywood releases movies, notes SI correspondent, Harshal Shah. And quite often the…
SI Panel tastes a selection of Malbecs
Pictured:Harshal Shah, Jonathan MacCalder, Rovina Sabnani, Rukn Luthra and Reva Singh
SI Tasting Panel: Viognier makes a splash
The Sommelier India Tasting Panel tastes a selection of Indian and International Viognier. Left to right: Rukn Luthra, Rovina Sabnani, Harshal Shah, Reva K Singh…
Really Gru-vee. Austrian Gruner Veltiner
Sommelier India Tasting panel recommends Austrian Gruner Veltliner white wines available in India. In order of preference, the tasting notes are as follows:
A taste of Chile. Wines to taste
It is such a pleasant surprise to find quite a range of Carménères in India. The best thing about these wines is that apart from…
Tasting a selection of Indian reds
Given below are tasting notes for each of the wines before the panel. They are listed in order of preference, from highest to lowest: Anakena…