New Excise Policy Boon for Small Producers
The last minute efforts by the Indian Grape Processing Board of having Mr. Sharad Pawar, Minister of Food processing industries meet with the top Brass of Delhi including the Chief Minister Sheila Dixit and the Excise Commissioner Mr R M Pillai in mid-March seem to have brought cheers to the small domestic wine producer, writes Subhash Arora. The policy would be beneficial to small producers who want to ent |
Mondial Wines Congregate for Concours at Luxembourg
A record number of 7386 wines and spirits from 50 countries are competing for medals at the 18th edition of Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in Luxembourg, which opened at Luxexpo today. Despite the recession challenges being faced by the global industry there is an air of excitement and enthusiasm, writes one of the judges, Cav. Subhash Arora from Luxembourg. There is an increase of around 5% from the previous year |
Sula Makes the Cut at Delhi DutyFree
After fretting for months, Sula seems to have finally broken the monopoly of Vijay Mallya’s Four Seasons wines at the Delhi Duty-Free shop since the inauguration last year of the new terminal T-3 of the Indira Gandhi International airport, offering great values despite indifferent attitude of the staff towards wine sales in general and Indian wines in particular, writes Subhash Arora. Sula has a fairly wide range of premium |
Bottle-Battle and the Power of Wine groups
Selling wine in today’s world is a complicated business because of diversity of country specific issues, trade barriers, and economic dominance enjoyed by the so called Old World Wine producers in dictating their terms. Unity, therefore, is crucial to ensure free trade, compete with the highly protected European Union, and to penetrate the emerging Asian and Latin American wine markets writes Rajiv Seth. The success |
Resveratrol may improve Stent Performance for Heart
Although regular use of anti-oxidants in red wine has proved to improve good cholesterol HDL and decrease bad LDL, no studies are known to have been carried out yet that suggest that arteries are also de-clogged with its use, but a new preliminary study suggests that coating stent with resveratrol and quercetin found in red wine may help it improve performance after engioplasty.Stents are inserted in the arteries to |
Wine Health: Australian Scientists link Alcohol with Cancer
May 4: While a new position statement on alcohol last week by Cancer Council Australia warned there was no safe level of alcohol intake, it advised Australians it was ok to stay within official healthy drinking guidelines of two standard drinks a day, with a new advertising campaign warning those who drink alcohol to stick to the guidelines. These recommendations, updated by the National Health and Medical Research |