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Blog: Mix and Match is Fine with Wine
May 23 : Bitten by a hangover on mixing their hard drinks like vodka, gin and whiskey, many novices mistakenly feel it is not proper to mix wines, meaning that white wines should not be drunk after red wine or sparkling wine after a red wine may give a hangover. However, this is not true so long as the volume consumed is not excessive and the wines  are not cheap, full of sulphites. At one party at my house we tasted and drank several wines, mostly reds, |
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CMB: Wines of Slovakia Waiting in the Wings
May 27: Wines from Slovakia may have to wait a while to find success in the difficult Indian market but they have been making long quality strides and getting the due international recognition as the recent results at CMB-Concours Mondial de Bruxelles would indicate, writes Subhash Arora who feels they deserve to be a niche as he tasted and discovered many interesting and affordable wines during a recent visit to Bratislava to judge at the competition |
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Book Review: Illustrated Book on Universal Ampelography
May 25: ‘Ampelografia Universale Storica Illustrata’ is a hard-bound 3 volume reference book in Italian and English language with 551 grape varieties from around the world with their historical background that will serve as a guide book to anyone interested in winemaking or simply someone who is fascinated by grapes writes Subhash Arora reviewing the Book. Ampelography is the science of identifying, naming and classifying grape varieties through |
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China Recognises Champagne as the Bubbly Nation
May 29: While Russia and the USA continue to insist to produce ‘Champagne’ and India fell in line several years ago under the threat of lawsuits, China has now taken the step to ban the word used on their locally produced wines and recognized that the sparkling wines produced only in Champagne have the right to be called as champagne. The new recognition comes as a major success for the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC), a trade |
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Brunello: Anthocyanin Profiling Effective for Traceability
May 30: Following up on the controversy raised by the US on the addition of other grape varieties in the Brunello di Montalcino a few years ago, a convention of Italian experts in Montalcino was held last Friday where the latest scientific discoveries on methods to assess the origin of Sangiovese grapes in this prestigious wine were presented and it was declared that the most effective and reliable method to trace the origin was “Anthocyanin Profiling” |
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Napa Winery successfully experiments Wine Aging under Sea
May 30: Indian wine producers may be behind in the use of latest technology but they might start thinking about experimenting with aging wine in the sea salt water in the Indian Ocean near Mumbai when they learn that a Napa Valley winery achieved stunning results recently in taste and cost of wine when storing wine in the sea for three months and that this style of aging might revolutionize the wine industry. Mira Winery made history this year |
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