Blog: Don't Drink and Walk
May 25: A fellow judge with me for five years at several international wine events and competitions including MundusVini and Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, the Portuguese journalist Anibal Coutinho flummoxed me when he recently gave me his new business card that had as a slogan- Don't Drink and Walk on the Road. ‘This  |
Wine Club Dinner: DWC goes Chilean at Hyatt
The dinner organised by the Delhi Wine Club at the Hyatt Regency in collaboration with the Chilean Embassy and attended by a record number, was a statement of the enthusiasm by the members, ProChile promoting Chilean wines and another display of ingenuity and creativity by the Hyatt Regency F & B, writes Subhash Arora who had seemingly flown specially for the dinner from Torino where he returned the followin. |
Grover Zampa Deal inching Ahead
The negotiations between Grover and Zampa have reached a final stage and the companies expect to seal the deal in the coming days, setting a stage for another strategic partner to come in with fresh investment, catapulting the new joint entity to become the clear second wine company in India, behind Sula, writes Subhash Arora. The Breaking News story reported first by delWine on April 27, 2011 has been tak |
Delhi Excise in Hibernation
May 25: With the month-end approaching fast and no announcement of the Delhi excise policy yet for 2011-12, it is highly unlikely that the new policy will be in force before June 30, causing a lot of uncertainly and anxiety amongst producers, importers and the on trade buyers, writes Subhash Arora. Although the excise department had issued an excise circular a month ago, duly reported in delWine, asking for the wh |
Banca delWine: Bank with a Difference
May 23: Ensconced in a corner of a beautiful building in Pollenzo, a small town at the foothills of Roero hills in Piedmont is Banca del Vino, a wine bank which has been created to help preserve the culture of fine ageing Italian wines by acting as a custodian for quality producers and giving an opportunity to the consumer to source aged wines, realizing their full potential, writes Subhash Arora who recently visited |
Aussie Wines still in a Downward Spiral
May 25: The Australian wine industry is still headed South and is experiencing its worst period in two decades with wine sales falling at the worst annual rate in 21 years with sales during the last quarter falling to 95 million liters, according to the figures released by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The domestic producers are facing a double-edged sword as the sales of imported wines has kept on increasing. It now |
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