Excise Should Allow Importer Licensees to Retail
August 17: With wine importers facing onslaught from producers, customs, excise, distributors and Retail outlets, ever-increasing the loading factor that makes the wine prices go north every year, it is time the Excise department considers allowing one special retail license to all the L-1F licensees, on the line of L-53 that will be a win-win-win for excise, importers and consumers, writes Subhash Arora. The suggestion is |
Wine Travel: Portugal - Dedicated Band of Douro Boys
August 16: Known for sweet Port wine for centuries, Douro Valley has now carved a niche for its red still wines and a significant credit goes to the Douro Boys, a band of five producers, who have orchestrated high quality performance with unique red still wines from local grapes, winning accolades from critics, competitors and consumers alike, writes Subhash Arora who met two of the ‘Boys’ during his recent trip to Dou |
American Wine Group buys Australian Loxton
August 16: An announcement last Thursday by The Wine Group LLC of San Francisco that it was buying Australia’s fourth largest winery Loxton would not create waves in India but for those who remember , it had been bought earlier by Indage Vintners over three years ago in a $60 million deal that was never completed, with Indage losing the advance deposit of $6 million and more in a legal action taken by the owners, Aust |
Wine Club Dinner: Sogrape sets Foot in Mumbai Again
August 16: Mr. Filipe Carvalho, from Sogrape was in Mumbai visiting their importer, Aspri spirits Pvt ltd and it was over a conversation with Mr. Sumedh Singh Mandla and Mr. Jackie Mathais that this wonderful opportunity fell in my lap to have a wine tasting with Sogrape and their 5 different wines, writes Bindu Malhotra, President of the Terroir One, Mumbai, writing about the wine dinner at the Spice Restaurant in J W Marriot |
Add Fine Wines to your Chinese Shopping List
August 10: Planeloads of Indian tourists making a beeline to China to shop for fake designer bags, cosmetics, electronics and branded golf sets may now add fine wines to their list, to be purchased at the fraction of their original cost, if a media report on the advances made by their counterfeiting industry is an indicator. There is an uncontested saying that Indians drink more scotch than produced by Scotland. |
Positive, Slower Growth in US Consumption
August 12: Just as the news of the US Credit Rating being downgraded by S & P for the first time from AAA to AA+ hit the stands, creating panic not only in the US but throughout the world including India, even though the downgrade has mostly symbolic significance, the 2011 Wine Handbook was being released according to which, ‘as the US economy slowly recovers, the wine industry is regaining its momentum to mar |
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