Blog: Wine may be Auspicious too
August 02: Wine is known to be a healthy, lifestyle product that helps build friendships. We know the divine aspect, especially in Christianity. But wine can also be auspicious which I discovered at least in the case of a wine connoisseur businessman of Chandigarh, Yasho Saboo who has seen an exponential rise in the sale of super luxury Swiss watches through Ethos chain stores across India, perh |
Wine Club Dinner: SECOND Visit not THE SIN
August 03: Thanks to the Paris-based Winetage Investment Fund co-sponsoring a wine evening at The Second Sin Restaurant in Saket, Bordeaux wines were the protagonists at the dinner organised at the Manré Restaurant in the new Avatar for the second time. Though the food and service barely kept pace in the second half, it was a pleasant evening, writes Subhash Arora who is generally a proponent of grin-and- |
Passing By: Patrick Langguth vs. Patrick Langguth from Mosel
There are two Patrick Langguths in wine business in Germany, totally unconnected but living within 100 meters of each other in Mosel Valley, making totally different wines. Patrick Langguth of the internationally known big wine producer F.W. Langguth exporting through Delhi-based Nature’s Bounty was in Delhi this week and explained the connection between the two families to Subhash Arora at a dinner organised |
Wine Tasting: Portuguese Wines from Viceroy of India
August 03: Quinta da Alorna is a Portuguese winery, 45 minutes East of Lisbon, founded in 1723 by Dom Pedro da Almeida who was the first Marquis of Alorna as he conquered the Fort Alorna in Goa , and was the 44th Viceroy of India from 1746-50. The wines from the winery were presented to a select group of invitees at the residence of the Portuguese Ambassador H.E. Jorge Roza da Oliveira last Friday, |
Wine & Health: Wine is Stress buster in UK
August 02: A study by the Spanish scientists finds that Flavonoids found in red wine may protect cells from damage from UV rays emitted by the sun causing sunburn and even skin cancer while a recent survey indicates that around two thirds of British adults drink wine and alcohol as their top choice after a stressful day as the government considers slightly increasing the daily recommended quantity. Ultraviol |
Electronic Taste of Cava may help improve Quality
August 04: After research in France and Sweden developing an electronic nose to find defects in wine aromas, comes a study from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain that claims that an electronic probe would be able to identify different types of Cava- the traditional Spanish sparkling wine, based on sugar levels-brut nature, brut and medium dry, but with none of the researches threatening to eliminate or reduc |