Sula plans to expand & increase Lead
Rajeev Samant, owner of Sula group of companies announced last week what had been published in delWine over 2 months ago, that Sula has officially emerged as the number one wine producer in India and is charging ahead with faster expansion than planned earlier to leapfrog and increase its lead. Making the announcement at a  |
EU May Soften Stand against India
France has gone on record saying that the dispute with India over duties on wine and spirits should be sorted out through discussions and not by going to the WTO, according to the statement made by the visiting Foreign Trade Minister France Anne Marie to the reporters at a function organized by the Confederation of Indian Indust |
Vino del Salone: Honey They Shrunk Me
The biennial Italian wine show at Torino previously held in 2007 made its seventh appearance, on October 24-26 but with a new image make over and with the space, size and participation downsized by more than half, showing the strains of recession, reports Subhash Arora. The current version was a pruned down 3-day event held |
Amazon Wine Sale Plans Shelved
Bogged not as much by the recession, as the labyrinth of complicated US state laws about wine sales, the biggest online retailer, Amazon.com has abandoned plans to sell wine in the US, almost a year after reports about its proposed scheme of direct wine sales surfaced in the media. 'According to Decanter, a company spokesman |
Hong Kong Wine Show Ready to Kick Off
There are only a few days before the second edition of the Hong Kong International Wine Fair opens its doors on November 4. Besides participation by 420 producers, there are a number of events being planned, including a Wine Industry conference on the first day of the show. Speakers include Liv-ex director James Miles, journalist |
US Geologists Challenge Minerality vs. Terroir Theory
At the annual meeting of Geological Society of America held in Portland Oregon, one of the Geologists debunked the idea that the vines absorb minerals from the soil and impart the taste to the flavour of the finished wine, resulting in ‘gout de terroir’ or the ‘taste of the soil’. “The idea is romantic and highly useful commercially, but it is |
