Arora nominated as Best International Journalist 4th Time
Mar 18: Cav. Subhash Arora, President of Indian Wine Academy and Editor of India’s first online wine and food eNewsletter delWine, has been nominated for the journalist excellence award as the ‘Best International Journalist’ by the Committee of Grandi Cru d’Italia, a premier Association of Italian producers, for the fourth year in succession |
Wine & Food Travel: Marchesi de Frescobaldi – Nawabs of Tuscany
Mar 18: If Marchesi de Frescobaldi, a family of noble men from Tuscany were in India, they would perhaps be the Nawabs of some erstwhile state, but this family of businessmen has been passionately in the wine business for 29 generations, having six Tuscan estates, writes Subhash Arora who visited all the four historical estates |
Bibi Graetz: It’s a Game for the Crazy Head Artist
Mar 13: Casamatta may be his most selling wine but Bibi Graetz is a Florentine young artiste by training, who is most proud of his top label Testamatta, meaning Crazy Head. He treats the wine business as a game and is actually releasing a new label he calls ‘It’s a Game’ this year, writes Subhash Arora who visited his winery located in |
DWC Dinner: A Sparkling Italian Wine Evening
Mar 18: Members and guests of the Delhi Wine Club enjoyed high quality Italian sparkling wines from Ricci Curbastro in Franciacorta at Delhi’s newest French eatery, Le Bistrot where three bubblies that vie to challenge Champagne, were served with rustic Italian cuisine. Sparkling wines have traditionally been served at Delhi Wine |
Indian Scientist Appointed Coordinator in OIV
Mar 14: Director of National Research Centre for Grapes in Pune, Dr. P.G. Adsule was unanimously appointed on Monday as Coordinator of the Ad-hoc Group on Dried grapes of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) during the two-week annual meetings concluding this week in Paris where a majority of the 600 experts
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Restaurant Ratings can be misleading unlike Wine
Mar 13: Ratings and awards are ways of showcasing a restaurant’s prestige and placement in the market. Broadly, they are supposed to be the ultimate validation of an F&B destination’s quality of offerings but as Niladri Dhar argues, wine ratings are more objective and scientific when tasted blind but due to some key shortcomings in the |
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