No. 591 : : March 08, 2014

Assistant Editor : Natasha Vohra

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Blog: A Tale of Two Tales on Indian Wines
Mar 08: There were two conflicting tales reported recently in media, one study from Assocham blowing the bugle and predicting the boom with a 30-35% projected growth in the coming year and the other spelling the doom, ruing 5 million liters of unsold wine in Maharashtra and 50 wineries on the brink of closure with farmers having lost millions in unsold grapes and thus uprooting vines, with the reality being somewhere in the middle.

Tuscany Taste 2014: Chianti Classico Gran Selezione launched in Grand Style
Mar 07: In a bid to enhance the quality perception of Chianti Classico wines, the Consortium has been innovating for the last couple of years, culminating in the introduction of a higher end Gran Selezione as a category through a government decree and officially launched the first set of 35 labels at a glittering function in the historical, grand Palazzo Vecchio followed by a dinner in which all these wines could be tasted, writes Subhash Arora who was at

Passing By: Nicolas Delion of Taittinger Champagne
Mar 08: Vietnam-based Export Manager Asia Pacific of the premium Champagne house Taittinger was in India for a couple of days to meet the trade and journalists and also to introduce the recently shipped ‘disco’ champagne Nocturne at the Oval Bar of the new, swanky JW Marriott at Aerocity.Based in Ho-Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Nicolashas been with Taittinger for two and a half

Vinisud 2014: An Indian in Pink Paradise of Provence
Mar 06: One often hears about the Chinese buying Chateaux in Bordeaux these days; one also reads about Indians starting their own wineries in the US, Australia or Europe, but one may not have heard about the first Indian perhapsby buying a winery in Provence, France over 40 years ago in 1973,writes Subhash Arora who so discovered visiting the stand of Château du Galoupet at the recently concluded Vinisud in Montpellier where he

David of Charosa challenges Goliath of Dindori
Mar 06: After successful entry in Mumbai in January and Goa a week ago, the Ajit Gulabchand promoted Charosa Winery launched their range of wines in Pune on Monday with a bold announcement that it is aggressively targeting to be the market leader in super premium and premium wine segment in the country over the next three years, implicitly displacing Sula as the market leader.

Pesticides in Wine may Reduce Sperm Count
Mar 06: A French study likely to create a lot of controversy and a rejection from the wine producers, showing that French men’s sperm count dropped by about a third between 1989 and 2005 with a recent follow-up study showing the maximum drop is in the sperm count in the wine producing areas, Aquitaine and the Midi-Pyrénées was released last week

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