Tastings
Sensational Sangiovese
It was a chilly evening early in the new year when the members of the Sommelier India Tasting Panel flocked to a warm and well-stocked library in South Delhi to assess, blindly, eight bottles …
Tastings
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Sommelier India Tasting Panel assesses champagnes and sparkling wines in a blind tasting
The Sommelier India tasting panel got together in early November to taste sparkling wines and champagne. The aim of our blind tasting was quite simple. With the rise in popularity of sparkling wines across the …
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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 uncomplicated and obvious choice. They pair well with our myriad …
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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 the finest reds in a blind tasting. Here’s a list …
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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 from northern Italy. To begin with, Prestige is importing De Bortoli’s Family …
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 …
Tastings
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 tasting prowess of Indian wine and beverage professionals, over a …
Features
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 onion skin to salmon to a bright cherry, it’s such …
Tastings
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. “Austrian Monuments: Four Decades of Great Grüner Veltliner” was the …
Tastings
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 particular nuances of each for SI readers and other wine …
Columns
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 rosé wines has never been better. There is now a …
Tastings
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 of the evening was a new kid on the block, …
Tastings
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 with the professional manner in which the wines were tasted. …
Tastings
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, New Delhi, to taste over 35 Indian wines to select …
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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 remaining stubbornly expensive in India, the Sommelier India Tasting Panel …
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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 Panel in lieu of its regular blind wine tastings. The …
Tastings
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 Sommelier India Tasting Panel receives their offerings to taste and …
Tastings
SI Panel tastes a selection of Malbecs
Pictured:Harshal Shah, Jonathan MacCalder, Rovina Sabnani, Rukn Luthra and Reva Singh