No. 580 : : December 03, 2013

Assistant Editor : Natasha Vohra

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WBWE: On Wine, Toddy and Voice of Wine Award 2013
Dec 02: As Don Lorenzo Capece, President of Argentinean Viticulture Corporation (COVIAR) received the ‘Voice of Wine 2013’ Award at the 5th edition of the World Bulk Wine Exhibition (WBWE) held in Amsterdam on November 25-26, for its lobbying hard with the government to declare wine as a National Argentinean Beverage, my mind raced back to India where wine is treated as an alcoholic beverage and our Constitution encourages prohibition. While accepting the award from the Argentinean Ambassador in Holland, H.E. Horacio Salvador on November 25th,

WWS: Taste That Tingles Taste Buds
Dec 03: The 5th edition of the World Wine Symposium held on November 7-10 in the dream settings of Villa d’Este, one of the top majestic hotels of Italy by the Lake Como had several interesting wine- related seminars but what impressed most were the wine tastings and the gastronomical delights with a variety of fine wines and the company of wine celebrities in an ambience of grandeur, writes Subhash Arora who has been invited to participate in each edition since the inaugural. The Symposium has seen a similar pattern from the very first year except that the

World’s Oldest Alcoholic Beverage to be launched at FFI
Nov 30: In a novel approach, Fine Foods India, to be held on December 11-13 has announced the participation by a Lithuanian company which will introduce Madhu Madya (honeyed alcohol), touted as the world’s oldest alcoholic beverage, the recipe of which finds mention in the 6000-year old Indian text Rig Veda. The media reports that have gone viral are expected to increase the popularity of the 3-year old Show, if not the drink, writes Subhash Arora. In an email brochure received by the Indian Wine Academy yesterday by the Fine Food India Expo, the copy reads,

Annual UpperCrust Food & Wine Show to open on Dec 6
Nov 30: The 11th edition of UpperCrust Food & Wine Show, claimed to be India’s biggest and most successful 3-day food and wine extravaganza, is being held from 6- 8 December at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai with an expected attendance of around 1,50,000 people, according to a Press Release. The brainchild of Farzana Contractor, owner and editor-in-chief of the UpperCrust food and lifestyle magazine, the UpperCrust Food & Wine Show is a food and wine trade fair which features products and services from the F & B industry as well as a range of related

Vintage 2013: Bordeaux is in the doldrums
Dec 03: Weather has caused havoc in Bordeaux this year as the quantity of wine produced will be much less and though some of the dry sweet wines will be magnificent, reds will not be of great quality but the botrytised wines will be much less in quantity though high in quality, writes John Salvi MW, an expert in weather for Bordeaux wines. It has been a chaotic year for weather. A very wet winter (over 500mm), which fully filled the water table, was originally welcome as it meant little or no hydric stress in the coming summer. A spring frost, 26-27 April, did some

Domaine de Vassal - Louvre of Vines
Dec 02: Tucked in a corner near Montpellier in South of France, by the Mediterranean Sea is a tract of 19 hA of sandy land called Domain de Vassal which has around 7000 varieties of different vines, some of them rare and almost extinct, making it the Louvre of Vines which is in danger because of a proposal to shift the venue due to lack of funds but could be protected by setting up a new Foundation. According to Dr. Vouillamoz who was speaking at the World Wine Symposium held at Villa d’Este, Lake Como in Italy last month, had said despite several categories of

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