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‘Salute’ to the Delhi Excise Department
June 25: Thanks to the computerized system the Delhi Excise insisted on pursuing during the last 4 months the operations in Delhi have become so streamlined that the label registration and renewal of excise license for this year has been done in a week compared to the 6-8 weeks that it took during the earlier years, resulting in sales-loss free  months of June-July this year for the importers and restaurants and we ‘d like to raise a glass of wine to the |
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Wine and Food Travels: Wines of Eastern Sicily – Sicilia Orientale
June 22: Palermo, Marsala and Etna may be the only familiar names to an average Indian wine lover who knows something about Sicily and its wines but Syracuse, Noto, Ragusa, Vittoria, Modica are not the cities likely to ring any bells and yet these cities in the Eastern part of Sicily have a rich history of culture and unique wines, especially the red wines even though Sicily produces more white wines, writes Subhash Arora who visited Eastern Sicily |
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Tasting: It’s All Greek to Us
June 20: Gregory Kontos of Athens-based Aegean Intertrade Co was in Delhi last week with about 16 labels of wines, liqueurs and spirits for a private tasting where he showcased wines from all the four wine regions to establish that the Greek wines are unique, pleasurable and have a distinct personality. He didn’t disappoint but has an uphill task as Greek wines are unknown in India, writes Subhash Arora who had a private tasting with him If Moschofilero, |
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The 1855 Classification moves towards UN Recognition
June 18: Conseil des Grands Crus Classés1855 (Médoc & Sauternes) has officially moved to have the “1855 Classification of Bordeaux Wines” recognized as part of France's Intangible Cultural Heritage, in preparation for its candidacy for inclusion on the UNESCO list of Humanity's Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to Philippe Castéja, President of the Conseil at a dinner hosted last Sunday at the estate of Château Mouton Rothschild |
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Rich and Famous: Most Expensive Champagne in the World
June 18: Barely a few days after the media reports splashed the news about a Midas-(30-liter) Armand de Brignac Gold Champagne bottle being bought by a British businessman for $580,000, comes a story of the most expensive champagne in a designer bottle sold for $1.8 million thanks to the precious packaging. It’s common to hear experts tell you what is important for wine quality is not the spiel and yarns spun by the slick marketing people but |
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Vinexpo: French Wine Star is born in a Can
June 24: Following the footsteps of recent packaging innovations of canning the wines by Australia and the USA, a French company has announced at Vinexpo the sale of branded wines labeled as Winestar and packaged in aluminium cans in an effort to capture the Coke drinking market of young people as they get old enough to imbibe alcohol besides claiming benefits of storage, ecology and portability. Desperate times need desperate |
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