Blog: Sula out- price Italian Wines in Oberoi
Indian wines seem to be charging ahead in terms of quality, branding and pricing, with Sula Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot commanding premium over the ubiquitous Italian offers from Frescobaldi, as I discovered during my visit on Sunday to Hotel Oberoi’s Cecile property where wine prices are generally  |
Maha Incentives for Maha Producers in offing
There are a host of new incentives to be granted soon by the Maharashtra government including easy licenses for the state producers to open multiple winery- owned retail vends for their own labels to enable them selling wines cheaper to the consumer, and further letting them open wine cafes at lower license costs with easier procedures, |
Fine Wines Do Fine in 2010
Recession may have caused a lot of pangs for the wine industry in general, but a booming demand from Asian markets for fine wine has made investment in this category an interesting avenue with collectors of top wines from Bordeaux scoring record gains and outstripping returns on investments in stock market or crude oil a |
Italian Sparkling Wines overtake Champagne
The world economic crisis that affected the sales and production of champagne has helped the cheaper sparkling wines from Italy, especially Prosecco to offer a more palatable alternative for the pocket to the bubbly lovers, helping the sparkling wine production, selling around 380 million globally, overtake that in Champagne by 10 |
Test Tannins to Tell Grape in Wine
Sonoma based Gallo may not have to suffer the frauds by French producers selling a non Pinot Noir and charging higher but the Indian producers may not be able to use Anarkali Purple and pass it off as Pinot or Merlot if an ongoing medical study at the University of Texas is successful in developing a sensor that can identify grape vari |
Carrefour Enters India with Cash n Carry
Dec 30: Carrefour, world's second largest retailer opened its first Cash and Carry store in India at Parsvnath Developer Limited's Metro Mall in Seelampur, a not-so-up-market locality in East Delhi yesterday. Parsvnath Developers Limited (PDL) is one of India's leading integrated infrastructure developers with pan India presence having a divers |
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