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. He is now the Executive Editor, Mail Today.Together they co-authored the Italian Wine Guide 2006, a guide to listed Italian wines in India.

Indian Wine Academy launched delWine, the country’s first eNewsletter on wine, food business, retail and hospitality sectors in April, 2006. The complimentary newsletter is sent to 18,000 subscribers in 31 countries about 6 times a month-397 issues have been sent till July 2010. It gives useful information about Indian wine industry, touching the world markets too. It also briefly monitors the hospitality industry and Retail-the two key segments important for the wine sector. The subscribers include producers, food and wine importers and exporters, hospitality decision-makers, consumers, retail sector heads and hotel management institutes.

Cav. Subhash Arora

Subhash Arora is a noted wine writer, author, journalist, international judge, speaker, consultant, educator and a wine club promoter. He is the Editor and major content provider of delWine. He is akso the India Correspondent of Meininger’s Wine Business International, Germany.

Arora is an engineer from IIT Delhi.

after spending a year in Germany, he went to the US and completed his MS and MBA from the University of Minnesota. An IT entrepreneur, he has been a wine evangelist for the last 10 years.

As an international judge for 16 competitions, he has been to the following tastings:

2010:  Grand Hyatt Catad'Or (Santiago), Vinoble 2010 (Jerez), Selezione del Sindaco (Brindisi); Concours Mondial de Bruxelles ( Palermo); Vinitaly Concorso (Verona), Wine Style Asia (Singapore) (President), India Wine Challenge (Mumbai). He has also been invited to judge at Michelangelo Wine Awards (Stellenbosch) and Mundus Vini (Neuestadt) in Aug-Sept.

2009: Mundus Vini, Neuestadt; Concours Mondial, Valencia, Wine for Asia, Singapore (President)

2008: Mundus Vini, Neuestadt, India Wine Challenge, London; India Wine Challenge, Delhi. South African Airways 2009 Tasting

2007: Mundus Vini 2007, India Wine Challenge, London; India Wine Challenge, Delhi.

2006 Vinitaly Concorso, Verona; 

He participated in the Torino Wine Show twice and the Alba White Truffle Show 2009. He was the only Indian delegate at the first ever World Wine Symposium held at Villa d’Este, Lake Como in October, 2009.

He was invited to speak and meet producers at Vinitaly in Verona in 2002 and 2006, Alimentaria 2006 (Barcelona) and Madrid Fusion 2007. He 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 to speak at the first National Wine Convention in Delhi, 2010 and several other platforms in India including to the visiting overseas delegations.

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, 2010, where he tasted the new arrivals of Chianti Classico, Nobile di Montepulciano and Brunello di Montalcino. Later in May 2009, 2010 to Alba to taste Barbaresco, Barolo and Roero newly released vintages. He travels regularly to various wineries in the world- tasting different varietals. He is also a member of the Wine Century Club.

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, 2008, 2010 in Jerez, Vinitaly 2008, Cape Wine Show 2008, Arezzo Wines 2009, Riminifair 2010. He has been invited to Italy several times to visit vineyards of Prosecco, Soave, Valpolicella, Friuli, Chianti Classico and Montalcino, Piemonte, Sicily and Marche. . He also frequents the USA, visiting a biennial international wine and heart health convention and Californian vineyards.

Under the leadership of Arora, the Delhi Wine Club he founded in 2002 has successfully organized 160 dinners till May, 2010 and many other wine promotional events in the leading hotels and restaurants in Delhi including one recently at the President’s Estate. He has conducted similar events in Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chandigarh.

In the first-ever survey conducted by Wine Business International, he was voted the best wine journalist of India in 2006. He was nominated for the Best Foreign Journalist Award by the Grandi Cru d’Italia, 2010.  

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. He also co-authored Italian Wine Guide 2007, the first book of its kind in India.