Indian Wine Academy Website Awarded at Vinitaly
At the annual gala dinner held in Verona last Friday, Comitato Grandi Cru d’Italia, the prestigious Italian association of quality wine producers with an established track record for 20 years, announced 8 awards for Italian and international media and journalists including Indian Wine Academy as the best website, writes Subhash  |
Indage may hit another Roadblock
Apr 6: The financially stifled Indage Vintners may have difficulty finding a suitor but there is no dearth of people willing to file suit against the company, the latest being the Himachal Pradesh government which seems to have reached a dead-end in making the company stick to the contract and may soon file a suit against the company, |
Prowein: A Teetotaller’s Diary on a Wine Fair
An international wine fair like Prowein may attract 38,000 trade visitors tasting wines from 3,600 exhibitors but it can be an exhilarating experience for a teetotaller as well, writes our guest writer Sarosh Bana who admits he cannot tell the difference between a Château Mouton Rothschild from a table wine and was invited by Messe Düssel |
VINITALY closes with a Record International Attendance
The 45th edition of Vinitaly ended in Verona on April 11 with almost 156,000 visitors including more than 48,000 from overseas, recording a 3% growth over the previous year and setting a new attendance record for international visitors led by Germany followed by the USA, Canada, UK, Switzerland, France, Austria, Eastern Europe |
Brits can’t tell Plonk from Premium
A blind tasting study conducted at this year’s ongoing Edinburgh International Science Festival shows that most people can’t tell the difference between cheap and expensive bottle of wine with only half of the participants being able to identify correctly. The results of The Science of Wine and Cocktails, an event held at the Royal Botanic |
New Low Prices set Norms in the USA
The US may have become the number one wine consuming country in the world by volume but the wine drinkers have become more choosy in the amount they spend on each bottle, with the average price of a decent premium wine declining by more than a half from around $40 in 2009 to around $15 a bottle now with plenty of bargain win |
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