Breaking News: Wine Finally gets Respect from Delhi Excise
The Delhi Excise department needs to be complimented for finally delineating wine and beer from the stronger alcohols through the much awaited Public Notice issued this morning. Although the annual license fee has been increased from Rs.500,000 to Rs.600,000, the excise duty is expected to be rationalized and brought down as it will now be based on the Whole Sale Price rather than MRP, writes Subhash Arora.  |
Blog: Enjoy Envoy di Oberoi sans Vino
I enjoy glancing through Envoy, the glossy newsletter from The Oberoi Delhi listing special gastronomical events planned for each quarter. But I was quite disappointed with the April-June issue which showcases Sicilian Specialties at Travertino but sadly neither includes Sicilian wines nor even any mention of wine anywhere in the new |
Wine Travel: Distinctive and Distinguished Wines of Campania
While Italy is generally identified in India with the North Italian wines from Tuscany, Piemonte and Veneto as also Sicily in the South due to its size and attractive prices, Campania with a glorious past of excellent wines makes some unique wines from indigenous grapes from the region that has made it command international respect of late, writes Subhash Arora who tasted several of these wines recently in Vinitaly . |
Passing By: Juliette M. of Bouvet Ladubay of Loire
Apr 27: While a majority of the Royal Challengers Bangalore supporters would have downed cases of Kingfisher Beer, Juliette Monmousseau, Deputy Managing Director and Exports Head of Loire Valley-based Bouvet Ladubay, also owned by Vijay Mallya, must have celebrated with a bottle of Bouvet Brut when they defeated the Delhi Daredevils, writes Subhash Arora who had earlier enjoyed the bubbly with her at a |
Tasting Bonanza of Bordeaux En Primeur 2010
We have been having fun expanding our wine tasting palette over the last decade and luckily got a chance to taste 2010 vintage off the barrel in the respective chateaux, writes our guest writer Meenu Kohli who, thanks to the custodian of her Winetage Investment Fund, had an opportunity on Apr 6th & 7th to complete the pilgrimage with most of the major chateaux in Bordeaux. For us no white gets better than a good |
Wine Health: Early Teen Supervised Drinking Problematic
Apr 29: Many middle-class parents believe that allowing their children to have a supervised drink is a good way of exposing them to alcohol safely but a new American-Australian study released yesterday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs suggests that it sends mixed signals that could result in abuse of alcohol as they enter their teens. A joint study of over 1,900 pre-teens of 12 and 13 years of |
