Blog: Singh- The Tee-Total True Singh
The spate of recent media reports based on an article from Indo Asian News Service focusing on my letter to the President of India pleading to allow serving Indian wines at the State banquets for legitimate reasons, especially as several bureaucrats and politicians consume alcohol in private, made an PIO American Sommelier remark  |
Fairly Festive Mumbai Wine Fest ‘10
The second Mumbai Wine Tasting Festival held on November 12-14 at the Radio Club Pier in Colaba was an event for wine lovers, where families could have great, inexpensive fun and frolic in a fairly festive atmosphere with wine as the protagonist, showcased by over 30 wineries that afforded the visitors an option of over a hundre |
Piper Heidsieck Unit for Sale
The Indian Beer Baron Vijay Mallya would perk up on learning that Remy Cointreau, the French based company which makes Remy Martin Cognac and Cointreau liqueur etc. announced on Monday that it had decided to sell the Champagne unit making Piper Heidsieck being distributed in India by Sula, and Charles Heidsieck. Confirmi |
Harvest Report: Germany 2010
Situated at the northern limit of the historical range of Vitis Vinifera, Germany has by and large benefitted from global warming. Vintage 2010, however, was cooler and more classical, with rain at harvest that presented growers with a multitude of challenges, writes Joel Payne from Germany. This year will certainly be the smallest crop in a |
Wine & Health: Headache Culprit in Wine Identified
Scientists have identified glycoprotein as the mysterious allergen in wine that causes headaches, stuffy noses, skin rash and other allergy symptoms with the discovery opening the doors to development of wine-making processes that minimize its formation and thus offer consumers low-allergenic wines, according to a new study |
New World Record for 1947 Bordeaux Bottle
The record for the most expensive auction wine bottle set in Hong Kong only last month, stands shattered with the new record set by an imperial-size bottle of Cheval Blanc 1947 sold for a record $304,375 to an undisclosed private Swiss buyer at the auction held on Tuesday at Geneva by Christie’s. The bottle was expected to fetch |
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