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Ranjit Dhuru, the CEO founder of a large IT public limited
company, Aftek Ltd., who is the majority shareholder at d'Ori, has been
to Bordeaux many times during the last few years. Not only does he buy
En Primeur from shippers there to collect fine Bordeaux wines like Mouton,
Angelus and Cheval Blanc, he also started importing eight labels from
Bordeaux 4 years ago and is currently selling 5,000 cases annually, including
Carillon, Jupille Carillon, Laffite Laujac and Pontac Monplaisir under
the Chateau d'Ori labels in Maharashtra.
The style of his own wine is set by the renowned oenologist
from Bordeaux, Athanase Fakorellis. A protégé of Michel
Rolland, Fakorellis has been visiting Dindori, where the estate is located,
for the last four years. He also designed the modern winery with its efficient,
concentric tanks, a first of its kind in the region.
Ranjit abhors screw caps and insists on using cork, in
a typical Bordeaux fashion. Even the labels, thought by many to be the
best wine labels in the domestic market today, were designed by the Spanish
artist Cristina Alba who lives in Bordeaux.
Available in Maharashtra for between Rs. 380 ($ 9.5)
and Rs.650 ($ 16 , he hopes that they will one day be available in France,
too, when the vines are older and wines reach even higher quality standards.
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