Wine Club Event: Wine and Spa at Qua
A wine event does not always have to be a sit down 5-course dinner in a fancy restaurant as members of Delhi Wine Club (Mumbai) discovered last week when we organised a wine evening on March 14 at the Spa at JW Marriott Hotel in Mumbai, writes Bindu Malhotra, President of the club. Terroir One members were treated to  |
Passing By: Nashik Grapes Escape Wrath
The untimely and heavy rains in Nashik last November caused mildew and loss of fruit, but also a scare about the quality of the crop which has come up to quite decent level, says Kerry Damskey, the master winemaker for Sula who was visiting from California to oversee the 2010 harvest. Subhash Arora who chatted with him at length share |
Sicilian Jewels: Golden Gulfi- Princely Principi
When results for the best red wine category were announced at the India Wine Challenge in January, it was a surprise to see a golden Nero d’Avola from an obscure Sicilian winery bag the coveted prize. But a recent trip to their vineyards by Subhash Arora explained how Gulfi makes excellent wines as also another premier winery, |
Feature: Adon Kumar- A Blend of Wine & IT
Dubbed as the Google of Wines, Wine-Searcher.com has maintained its leadership position as the biggest and most used independent wine search engine since 1999 with an Indian expat Adon Kumar now at the helm of affairs. Our California correspondent, Rishi Vohra who interacted with him at length, shares the unique |
Nature’s Basket Jumps Gun from Pole Position
The latest store of the Godrej-owned Nature’s Basket in Delhi appears all set to be the first Retail supermarket in the queue to offer wine at the gourmet food chain, but it seems to have jumped the gun in making announcement insinuating that it had also started selling wine, writes Subhash Arora. Perhaps the latest Bollywood style of |
There is Nuclear Residue in my Wine
The possibility of using the radioactive carbon released during the atomic bomb tests until 1963, to estimate the wine vintages fairly accurately, as discovered by Australian researchers and reported by media, may also scare away some wine drinkers who would need to be re-assured that they are not imbibing harmful nuclear waste, ho |
