INDIAN WINE ACADEMY
Specialists in Food & Wine Programmes; Creators of an Extensive Database of Food & Beverage Professionals and Food Importers in Ten Cities Across India; Publishers of delWine, India’s First Wine, Food, Retail & Hospitality eNewsletter

ADDRESS
A-458, Defence Colony
New Delhi – 110048
Phone- +91-11- 41622892 & 26438755 T/ Fax +91-11-26430812.
Website: www.indianwineacademy.com
E-Mail: arora@indianwineacademy.com
            wineknightindia@gmail.com

INDIAN WINE ACADEMY’S ACTIVITIES: A SUMMARY
The Indian Wine Academy is a New Delhi-based market development consultancy firm with extensive contacts among food and beverage professionals and hotel management institutes around the country. It helps to fecilitate increased consumption of wine in India

The Academy was launched in 2003 by Subhash Arora, President, Delhi Wine Club, Net entrepreneur, and author, aided by Sourish Bhattacharyya, a food and wine journalist with 22 years behind him in the profession, who, after editing HT City, the daily lifestyle section of Hindustan Times (North India’s largest-selling daily published in English), and HT City Eating Out Guide, is now the Executive Editor, Mail Today, a international joint venture between the India Today Group, the country’s leading media house, and the Daily Mail of London.

Together, they launched delWine, the country’s first eNewsletter on wine, food business, retail and hospitality sectors, which is now in its 300th edition and is being circulated to 14,000 subscribers in 31 countries, which include food and wine importers, hospitality decision-makers, retail sector heads and hotel management institutes. They have co-authored the Italian Wine Guide 2006, a guide to Italian wines listed in Indian hotels and restaurants.

Cav. Subhash Arora
Mr. Arora, who's the India Correspondent of Meininger’s Wine Business International, published in Germany is an engineer from IIT Delhi, who went to the USA and completed his MS and MBA from the University of Minnesota. An IT entrepreneur, he started promoting wines in the last 10 years.

He is a noted wine writer, author, journalist, international judge, speaker, consultant, educator and a wine club promoter.

He was invited to speak and meet producers at Vinitaly in Verona in 2002 and 2006, Alimentaria 2006 (Barcelona) and Madrid Fusion 2007. Mr. Arora was invited to deliver talks on the Indian market and consumer trends at Fenavin 2007 at Ciudad de Real, Spain, Prowein 2007, Vinitaly 2006 and Wine for Asia 2005 and 2008. He was invited by the Government of Rioja to participate in the Grandes de la Rioja 2006 tasting of the region's wines. He went for the Tuscan Tastings in Feb. 2009, where he tasted the new arrivals of Chianti Classico, Nobile di Montepulciano and Brunello di Montalcino. Later in May to Alba to taste Barbaresco, Barolo and Roero newly released vintages.

Other shows where he went as a journalist  were TopWine 2006, 2008 ( Huelva , Andalucía) and Vinoble- the biennial international exposition of dessert and fortified wines in 2006 and 2008 in Jerez, Vinitaly 2008, Cape Wine Show 2008, Arezzo Wines 2009. He has been invited to Italy several times to visit vineyards of Prosecco, Soave, Valpolicella, Friuli, Chianti Classico and Montalcino, Piemonte and Marche. . He also frequents the USA, visiting a biennial international wine and heart health convention in Napa.

Under Mr. Arora's leadership, the Delhi Wine Club he founded in 2002 has successfully organized 148 dinners till October, 2009 and many other wine promotional events in the leading hotels and restaurants in Delhi. He has conducted similar events in Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chandigarh.

In the first-ever survey conducted by Wine Business International, Mr. Arora was voted the best wine journalist of India in 2006. He was invited to be a judge at Mundus Vini 2007, 2008 and 2009 in Germany, the biggest OIV-recognised wine competition in the world. He has also judged at Vinitaly 2006 and India Wine Challenge in London and Delhi in 2007 and 2008. He has been an international panelist also for the tasting in Cape Town for 2009 wine selection for South African Airways. He judged at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2009 in April in Valencia and later he was the President of the jury at the Wine for Asia in Singapore in October.

He was invited to participate in the Torino Wine Show and the Alba White Truffle Show 2009. He was the only Indian delegate at the first ever World Wine Symposium held in Lake Como in end-October. He has already been invited as a judge for five international competitions and about a dozen wine events, many of which he may be constrained to regret due to commitments.

His biggest contribution to the wine industry is through India’s first eNewsletter on wine, food and hospitality-delWine which is sent 6-8 times to over 16,000 people globally and is highly acclaimed for its independent and objective commentary.

Mr. Subhash Arora was  knighted by the Italian President in 2009 and given an official title of Cavaliere, for his meritorious efforts in building friendly ties between India and Italy through wine promotion and education.