Drive Drunk and Land in Jail in Delhi
In a drive to control the menace of drunk driving, the Delhi Police has swung into action and started enforcing the relatively new law which is prevalent in a majority of other civilised nations and has jailed over a thousand people for drunk driving and suspended licenses of over 800 during the current year, sending out clear warning to DUI drive  |
Wine Travels: Sicily-a Sea of Wine
Thinking Sicily brings to mind a kaleidoscope of pictures including that of Don Corleone of Godfather fame, hot tempered gun toting and overprotective fathers and a sea of wines that includes bulk and cheap wines, but indigenous grapes unique to the region and a push to quality in the last couple of decades, has made it a New Wor |
Wine Club Dinner: Theme for a Dream at Claridges
Delhi Wine Club dinners are mostly planned around the presence of a visiting eminent winemaker or a wine theme or simply the launch of a new upmarket restaurant which looks upon the DWC as an excellent promotional vehicle. However, for our April wine dinner (number 5/ #176) at Hoteld Claridges Delhi the theme was most unusual, . |
Fight Climate Change, says Kofi Annan
The former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kofi Annan exhorted the global wine industry to focus on protecting the planet where biodiversity is at risk from the effects of climate change and of its impact on the world economy, stressing that the greening of the global economy can be as important in the transformation |
Italian Youth Drinking less Wine
An evening walk around Piazza Bra in Verona with hundreds of young Italians milling around holding wine glasses or scores of them waiting patiently outside the over-packed, iconic Antica Bottega del Vino nearby, may give lie to a market study that shows that only 13% of those in the 16-35 year age bracket drink wine, the numbe |
TechTalk: Photopurification of wine with UV Technology
A Swiss technology using ultra violet light energy for liquid purification in wine making, known as photopurification technology is gaining momentum, with many winemakers having used the system from a company called SurePure, resulting in less harmful chemical intervention and decreasing the need to add sulphur and other disinfecta |
