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Blog: Please do not try this Stunt at Home
Mar 22: It may be his idea of adding some spice to life, oops wine, but a recent statement by Nathan Myhrvold, former COO of Microsoft-and not the red wine, should be taken with a pinch of salt and I won’t advise our readers to try this stunt at home unless you are drinking a cheap red Carlo Rossi from Gallo. The former Chief Operating officer  of Microsoft is now a lot more into food than technology; he can well afford experimentation with all the money |
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Tasting: Delightful Dessert Moscato Wine from Mercury
Mar 25: The delightful and delectable dessert wine made from Moscato grapes by the Ozar-based Mercury Winery whose wines have been already winning various international awards, really impressed me with its aromas, flavours and the capability to tame chilies in the hot food besides being a traditional dessert wine, writes Subhash Arora who tasted it with food recently. When I visited the Mercury Winery 3-4 years ago for the first time I was surprised |
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WSA Awards 2014: Singapore Singe
Mar 25: One often hears about the famous cocktail Singapore Sling, but perhaps not Singapore Singe, a term coined by me during a recent trip to Singapore to judge at the WSA Wine Challenge 2014 where the sudden tax increase on wines last month saw Singapore singe and the imports brought to a standstill besides the continued problems of heat damage, writes Subhash Arora who feels their problems are similar but milder as compared to the Indian |
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Argentiera: Fruit of Passion for Fratini Fratelli
Mar 26: During one of the dinners at the World Wine Symposium last year at Villa d’Este, I was so impressed by two wines- Argentiera DOC Bolgheri Superiore and Giorgio Bartholomaus IGT (100% Merlot) from Argentiera Estate in San Donoratico near Bolgheri in the Tuscan Maremma that I went to congratulate Marcello Fratini who gracefully invited me to the estate, writes Subhash Arora who accepted the invite and visited this new generation winery |
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Wah Taj! Waiting for Wednesdays for Wine at the Palace
Mar 27: One may blame hotels for charging outrageous prices but the Taj Palace in Delhi has devised an ingenious and extremely pocket friendly Wine Event at The Blue Bar every Wednesday where about 100 wines are available by the glass at prices reduced by up to 60% and ranging between Rs.250 -950 a glass making the Wednesday Wine Social a not-to-be-missed event by any true wine lover, writes Subhash Arora who was impressed by the |
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Antinori King of Labels in India
Mar 26: If one were to ask any wine cognoscenti in India about the biggest selling label in India, a majority would give the correct answer; Pernod Ricard- owned Jacobs Creek label from Australia is the biggest selling single brand, way ahead of the runner-up Moet Chandon but in terms of the maximum number of labels imported from a single winery group, Antinori from Tuscany rules the roost, writes Subhash Arora. It would truly be a trick question that would |
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