Singapore FHA 2010 Promises to be Bigger
The 17th edition of Food & Hotel Asia 2010, claimed to be Asia’s largest international food and hospitality trade event, is getting ready to open from 20 to 23 April 2010 in Singapore, with a record 2,800 exhibitors participating from 70 countries and many new innovations on site, according to the organisers. Despite the recession last ye |
Star Interview: Don Diego of Wines Sicily
Don Diego Planeta is the President of Settesoli, the biggest wine co-operative in Sicily and of Assovini, an association of Sicilian wine producers. He is the founder of Planeta winery which within 15 years of its existence helped upgrade the image of Sicilian wines, writes Subhash Arora who spent a considerable time chatting with him rec |
Passing By: Roberto Barbato of Franciacorta Bellavista
Roberto Barbato, Sales and Marketing Director of Terra Moretti group which owns the coveted Bellavista in Franciacorta in Lombardy as well as Petra in Maremma was in Delhi, presenting wines from the two wineries to invited guests in the beautiful wine cellar of Hotel Oberoi. Bellavista is an iconic level beautiful winery in Franciacorta, |
Tuscan Marathon 2010: Brunello di Montalcino
Tuscan Marathon 2010 as Conte John Salvi MW describes the 1000-wine Ante Prima tasting organised by the Consortia of San Gimignano, Chianti Classico, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Brunello di Montalcino last month is a 4-part series only an expert like him with decades of experience can illustrate. This is Crescendo of the symp |
Obituary: Minister Condoles Naqshband Demise
Kumari Selja, The Indian Minister of Tourism condoled the demise of Mr. Ghulam Naqshband, Founding President of the Delhi based Wine Society and also the Chairman Emeritus of Le Passage to India Tours & Travel Pvt. Ltd. The eighty six year- old Mr Naqshband who died on March 5, was a soft spoken low- key wine lover wh |
Weather Rescues Australia Vintage 2010 but not Oversupply
Aussies may not be too happy about filling in the gap created by their strong New World adversary Chile which lost about 125 m liter of wine in the recent earthquake, but the calamity may not bring a sufficient business their way to erase the surplus even as the premium winemakers from different parts of the country are expecting |
