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DWC Wine Dinner: Old is Gold at Empress of China
Mar 01: Members of the Delhi Wine Club were treated to Chinese feast after rocking to an exclusive band at the Empress of China Restaurant at the Hotel Eros in Nehru Place, writes Arun Batra. In the last decade or so Delhi has seen a barrage of new restaurants opening (and closing down) every month so much so that in the hunt for the latest  and the most in place to dine we sometimes tend to forget some of the places that we used to dine at |
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Tuscany Taste 2014: Tuscany does an 1861 on Wines
Mar 01: If 1861 is known as the year if Italian Unification (Risorgimento), 2014 might be remembered a similar landmark year for Tuscany, when ‘Toscana Promozione’ took under its wings all wine producing areas of Tuscany and organised a common wine promotion including the Chianti Classico Collections, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Benvenuto Brunello supplemented with Vernaccia di Sam Gimignano and several other regional |
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Passing By: Pio Boffa from Piemontese Pio Cesare
Mar 01: There are few Italian producers who have been visiting India as regularly as the family-owned high-quality wine producer Pio Cesare whose co-owner, Pio Boffa was recently in India once again but on an unusual visit in that this time he visited only Bangalore and Chennai where his importer Prestige Wines and Spirits had organised wine dinners. ‘I have been to Delhi and Mumbai during my last few visits and wanted to see the other markets |
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IGPB: From Wine Festival in Nashik to Wine Clubs across India
Mar 01: According to media reports, the second edition of India Grape Harvest, the wine festival organised by the Indian Grape Processing Board (IGPB) in Nashik from February 14-16 last month was so successful that the Board has decided to reach out to the consumers through the formation of wine clubs across the country. ‘There is a proposal to establish 20 such wine clubs across the country beginning with the metros so that they can |
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The Case of Lafite vs. Lafitte and Krug vs. Krug
Feb 17: For most Indians or Chinese, Lafitte might be considered a typo for Lafite; in fact even if you Google ‘Lafitte’ it throws 1.16 million entries at you, the majority relating to Lafite, but Château Lafitte is a small unclassified Bordeaux producer which has been in a legal wrangle with the First growth Chateau Lafite (Rothschild) for a decade over the wine label, just as the LVMH -owned Krug readies for a legal battle with the small namesake winery in |
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City of il Papa has highest per Capita Consumption
Feb 28: While Catholics in India get to drink wine mostly as a ritual and the government treats the drink at the same level as any other hard liquor product to extract taxes, the Vatican City has recorded the highest per capita consumption of 74 liters, according to the Statistics released by the Wine institute in California. The revered Pope, known as ‘il Papa’ in Italy, lives in the Vatican City in Rome, yet an independent State where wine is |
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