No. 565 : : August 19, 2013

Assistant Editor : Natasha Vohra

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Mundus Vini 2013, Click Here to enter online, Closing date for entries: 19 July 2013
Wine and Passion in the Marche Region
DWC Wine Dinner at Élan with Elan and an Elaan
Aug 19: The previous dinner of the Delhi Wine Club was a Pre-Independence Day celebration with élan at Élan Restaurant, the soft-launched Indian Cuisine Restaurant at the Lodhi (formerly Hotel Aman), which seems to have made an implicit ‘Elaan’ (proclamation) that it intends to become the top innovative, new-breed Indian Restaurant in town even before it has been formally opened, writes Subhash Arora. The 214th wine dinner of the Delhi Wine

WOW: Top Ten Women of Wine in India 2013-Karishma Grover of Grover-Zampa
Aug 17: Indian wine industry is at a nascent stage but many women have taken the plunge in the field of winemaking, marketing, education and journalism, with varying degrees of success. We bring you the first-ever list of Top Ten Women of Wine in India 2013: WOW. We have refrained from ranking them and chosen to keep it generally in alphabetical order. In this edition Subhash Arora focuses on Karishma Grover, Assistant Winemaker of Grover

World’s First Pinotage Icewine from British Columbia
Aug 16: Pinotage is undoubtedly South Africa’s signature and controversial grape which is either loved or hated by connoisseurs from South Africa and elsewhere but the world’s first icewine using the grape has been produced by Stoneboat Vineyards, a family owned winery in southern Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. The wine, sold in frosted, half-sized bottles is a salmon pink colour with 8.3% alcohol and a residual sugar of 230gms/liter. It has

Italian Consensus on Moderate Drinking & Health
Aug 14: A group of Italian scientists has prepared a consensus paper reviewing the available evidence on the relationship between moderate alcohol use and health and disease, which says the healthy adults may drink moderate amount of wine or alcohol but those with increased specific risks, abstainers and those in specific situations should avoid. There is also a critique by the Reviewers with the International Scientific Forum on

Chemists discover 23 new molecules in red wine
Aug 16: A team of researching chemists at the University of British Columbia in Canada and Australia’s University of Adelaide have found 41 molecules in red wine, 23 of which are new molecules that could mean there are even more virtues in the red wine drunk in moderation than known thus far, according to a Media Release on Monday. Assoc. Prof. Cédric Saucier, who runs the Enology laboratory at UBC’s Okanagan campus, has spent years trying to

UK Government lobbying for lower Alcohol in Wines
Aug 19: Indian lawmakers in the process of formulating the currently non-existent wine laws, may do well to keep in mind that the UK government, concerned with alcohol abuse due to ever-so-increasing levels of alcohol in wine, has been lobbying the EU for a reduction in wine’s legal minimum alcohol requirement by-volume from the current 8.5% to 4.5% abv. to encourage the use of lower alcohol wines. Rising levels of wine drinking among

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