Blog: Call Me Cavaliere- Kahte San’k Kabir
The recent announcement of knighthood for the Italian TV series Sandokan’s star Kabir Bedi who will receive the order of merit from the Italian Government on December 9 and who reportedly says ‘you must now call me Cavaliere Kabir Bedi’, made me reflect on the coveted award I also received last year for promotion of wine culture in India an |
Star Interview: Marimar Torres of Sonoma
If Miguel Torres were a Californian Cabernet- big, bold and powerful with firm tannins and a long aging potential, his younger sister Marimar would be like a fine Burgundian Pinot Noir - elegant, velvety, well balanced, drinking well now but will still age well and by no means a pushover, writes Subhash Arora who chatted with her recently at a |
Wine Feature: Winetage-The Wine Advantage
Investing in wine is becoming as fashionable as wine drinking in India, with the media highlighting the opportunity but there is not much information about how to do it. One of the options available to a small or medium investor is from Winetage Investments Ltd., run by Paris-based Meenu Kohli, who appears to have had an impressive perf |
Launch: Kandara Wines - From Goa to Delhi
It may be a norm for the importers in Delhi to go to Goa to sell their wines but the Springfields Winery in Goa is bringing their indigenous Kandara labeled wines in three variants to Delhi with a soft launch last week of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Chenin Blanc . Mario Sequeira, the Don of Goan Port wines, who was in Delhi last |
IFDE: Food Show with Wines Too
The second edition of the International Food and Drinks Expo which debuted last year with the promise of a big show and a bigger one this year concluded last Saturday, but the size and participation and the visible number of visitors may not validate claims though the exhibitors of food, especially olive oil seemed to dominate. The world |
Brits still Ignorant about Wine
As an Indian you may relax if you cannot tell more than the difference between red and white wine as a recent survey in Britain discovers that despite centuries of wine drinking and the best of wine education available, half the Brits are ignorant and still confused in particular, about the crucial difference between the grape and the regio |
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