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Blog: Thumbs Down to the Canned Spirit Wines
June 06 : Florida based low-cost Spirit Airlines is thinking out of the box and has announced pouring wines out of the cans instead of the usual quarter-bottle in what one of our elitist ministers once called the 'cattle class'. Whatever be their reasons, I feel it is a disgusting idea and must give it a Thumbs Down. Spirit Airlines is thinking outside of the  bottle, reads the news report in Seattle Times based on the news item in Associated Press. Starting this |
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Divine Indian Wines from Italian Winemaker in Karnataka
June 11: Bangalore-based SDU Winery has launched Deva labels of varietals-Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah wines with much fanfare and hyperbole, produced from the grapes cultivated in their own vineyards and with the help of the Italian consultant winemaker Andrea Valentinuzz, but surprisingly in non-standard full bottle size of 700 mL. ‘Deva, which means divine in Sanskrit, adopts the simplicity of name and recall. Deva transcends |
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Authentic Judgement of Paris to be Produced
June 08: ‘Judgement of Paris’, written by the Hollywood screenwriter Robert Kamen, will be produced by him and an Italian businessman Jonathan Rotella, with the backing of Steven Spurrier who organised the famous blind tasting of 1976 in which a Chardonnay and a Cabernet Sauvignon from two Californian wineries Chateau Montelena and Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars beat the top French counterparts in Burgundy and Bordeaux. This version is expected to |
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Wine Travel: Verdicchio and other Wines of Le Marche
June12: Whenever one talks of excellent cuisine made with freshly caught fish and other sea creatures in Italy, the name of Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi as a perfect wine mate comes to mind instantly, claims Subhash Arora who had an opportunity of enjoying some of the delicious sea-food with these wines and also tasting them with the experts at the well-known wineries- Umano Ronchi, Garofoli, Cantina Colognola, Moroder and Moncaro |
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TechTalk: New Phone App to monitor Alc. in Wineglass
June 10: The Australian wine company Jacob’s Creek plans to launch the first smartphone app in the world that lets you calculate how many standard alcoholic drinks you have consumed simply by pointing your smartphone at your wineglass. Pernod Ricard’s Australian subsidiary- owned Jacob's Creek has developed a software app for smartphones that can calculate how many standard drinks there are in the wine glass, regardless of the size or |
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Institute of Masters of Wine to come to Italy in 2014
June 08: Making its entry in Italy for the first time, the 8th edition of The Institute of Masters of Wine Symposium, entitled “Identity, Innovation, Imagination” will be held in Florence on 15-18 May, 2014 in conjunction with the event’s principal sponsor, Istituto Grandi Marchi, according to a Press Report released yesterday by the Institute. The Symposium plans to bring together the leading decision makers and opinion formers from the global wine |
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