UK Market Report claims youth driving the Indian Wine Market
October 18: If the report released by the British market survey company Canadean is accurate, the country’s wine consumption is being incredibly driven by youth with young adults between the age of 16-34 years representing 46.5% of the drinking population which naturally includes a sizeable chunk of illegal consumers as most  |
Sicily: Bewitching Mediterranean Continent within Italy
October 19: Going back for the first time after several years, visiting all of the main wine areas of Sicily with a Masters of Wine group, Susan Hulme MW whose first love was Sicily and its wines, was once again impressed by the diversity and character of Sicily and her wines that capture the imagination with a distinctly Sicilian feel. Sicily was |
Passing By: ‘Mad and Maverick’ Marc of Boekenhoutskloof
October 17: Marc Kent, Chief winemaker, General Manager and partner of the South African Boekenhoutskloof Estate in Franschhoek, who is often considered mad by some and maverick by the others out of sheer envy and affection, was in India last week. Subhash Arora met him at the Golf Bar at ITC Maurya Sheraton for a chat |
Prats to depart Cos as he wants to
October 17: Jean-Guillaume Prats, the CEO of the Bordeaux Second Growth Cos d’Estournel has, in a surprising move, announced on Monday that he is quitting after January next year after working for 12 years. Michel Reybier, the owner of the celebrated St Estephe second growth since 2000, sent a letter to Bordeaux négoci |
Consortium: Italian Wines should have Central Command from HK
October 18: Italia del Vino-Consorzio, one of the several associations and groups formed by the Italian wine producers to bolster their marketing efforts, have exhorted the Italian producers to come together and create a Central Command rather than work as fragmented groups to conquer the complex Chinese market and they should |
Starbucks joins the Coffee Stars of India
October 19: After years of blowing hot, blowing cold strategy, the Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks finally has entered through the gateway of India and inaugurated its first café in a historic building in southern Mumbai, owned by its partner- Tata; thus joining the established Indian Brands like Cafe Coffee Day with over 1600 outlets |
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