Blog: Of Mercedes- Benz and Malbec- Barolo
A recent media report indicating that a Pune dealer had sold 148 Mercedes- Benz cars in the small town of Aurangabad in Maharashtra validates my long- time stand that the future of premium wines lies in tapping this latent market which has huge clusters of rich people waiting to be enticed to quality wines- but only after the brand smells  |
Indian Market: Delhi Gets Its Excise Act together
Delhi Excise Act 2009 formulated last year under the Central government’s Model Excise Act suggestion has come into effect since Monday, with no surprises or innovations except women can now work as bartenders in 5-star hotels and anyone over 21 may serve liquor, but with no change in the legal minimum age requiremen |
Feature: CWG-Crying Wine Grouch
Common Wealth Games began in Delhi on Sunday on a much better note than the media feared a month ago, but the Indian wine industry has missed a golden opportunity to showcase the wines that are supposed to rock the world within the next few CWG, writes Subhash Arora who claims no efforts were made from any quarte |
The Great Escape with Grape Harvest
One occasionally hears of fakes and frauds in the world of wine but denuding part of a vineyard full of ripe grapes and driving away with the loot is not an everyday occurrence and is not amusing for the French grape grower whose premium crop is perhaps already in the press at a rival wine maker, with the police having few clues. The ga |
Wine Health: Measure the Goodness of Wine
Researchers at the Polytechnic School of Lausanne in Switzerland and Stanford University in California claim to have together devised a machine, that can perform a simple test to find the levels of polyphenols in individual wine bottles quickly, and which is ready to be introduced in the French market after being tested on about |
It’s Raining Bordeaux and Burgundies in HK Auctions
Recent Auctions in Hong Kong have whetted the appetite of the affluent Asian bidders who bought up wines worth $13.8 million at the latest auction conducted by Sotheby last weekend, coming close to the combined sale of around $ 15 million a couple of weekends ago at the two auctions by Acker and Christie’s, most of the wines bein |
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