Minor Duty Respite for Wine Importers Likely
In what may not warrant popping of champagne bottles, there is every likelihood of the government withdrawing the 4% Special Additional Duty it had imposed on the import of wine and several other imported products a few years ago with a later provision of getting a refund on production of certain documents, writes Subhash Arora. The ro  |
Wine Dinner: Commit The Second Sin
If you are a gourmand, you are often committing the Second Deadly Sin, gluttony, but if you are a gourmet who loves to Eat, Drink and Enjoy fine food and drinks, you should love to commit The Second Sin, as members of the Delhi Wine Club discovered at the unofficial launch of the soon-to-be-opened Restaurant at the fourth floor of th |
Escaping to Goa Grape Escapade 2011
The seventh edition of the Goa Grape Escapade dubbed as the Food and Lifestyle Festival Goa, went off successfully despite the earlier unwarranted protests by a few concerned overzealous ladies, with several well known Indian wineries like Sula, Big Banyan. Vintage and Zampa carrying the torch for the domestic producers while |
Launch: Turning Point for ex-Moet India Boss
Those familiar with the Indian wine industry might have been wondering about the whereabouts of Ashwin Deo, former MD of Moet Hennessy after he left them in October 2008 and later Tiger Beer. He has been busy developing his own private label, Turning Point for the wines ready to be launched at the Tote Restaurant in Mumba |
Indian Decks Cleared for OIV Membership
Within a year of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries taking the in-principle decision for India to join the Paris based International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV , it has got the proposal cleared from various government departments and now OIV has taken the final step of informing its member states for any possible oppos |
Retail: FDI in Retail still a Dream
Despite a lot of hype and rhetoric built around the possible opening of Foreign Direct Investment in Retail, with both sides presenting their case convincingly at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, FDI still remains a distant dream for the global retail chains who find the Indian market still very lucrative despite a couple of patch |
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