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Blog: Forgive him for he knoweth not
Apr 16: I was surprised and upset but mostly amused by a hate mail received a few weeks ago, essentially telling me to stop promoting wine and ‘making money out of this business’ as it was immoral . I had tossed the mail aside in the computer and could not trace it but since the gentleman requested me to reply, I have decided to share his views  with the readers, hoping he would read the Blog and understand my viewpoint too. I don’t remember the exact |
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Wines on Auction at the Empress at Eros
Apr 14: Hotel Eros (till recently Inter-continental) in Delhi has come out with an interesting marketing strategy to promote consumption of wines in their restaurants by initiating a ‘Wines on Auction’ on a select number of wines by reducing by 10-30% of their normal price for bidding at an auction on the dinner table so the highest bidder can buy at that price, writes Subhash Arora who happened to go for lunch on Sunday and discovered the scheme launched |
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En Primeur 2013: The Math and Aftermath
Apr 15: The En Primeur week that concluded after a week of showcasing wines by several Chateaux earlier this month, raises several pertinent questions regarding the vintage of 2013 the success of which may be gauged by various parameters, writes our Bordeaux Correspondent Pallavi Vatsa who visited several Chateaux and meeting several stakeholders on behalf of delWine and analyses the vintage. How is the success of a vintage judged? |
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Wine Benefit for the South African Dave Hughes
Apr 11: Indian wine lovers with some cricket in them, know about the Benefits organised by the BCCI for select cricketers at the end of their careers not only as a mark of recognition but also to gift them the amounts thus collected, but a befitting Benefit planned for Dave Hughes, the veteran South African winemaker, journalist, distiller, author, consultant and judge who has spent almost 60 years in the service of wine industry is perhaps the first |
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South Africa Happy Hunting Ground for Billionaires
Apr 16: After the Indian billionaire entrepreneur Analjit Singh acquired a stake in multiple Platter five- star awarded Mullineux Family Wines located in the town of Riebeek-Kasteel in Swartland in South Africa, comes the news that the UK billionaire Sir Richard Branson has also reportedly purchased a property-Mont Rochelle Hotel and Mountain Vineyard in Franschhoek, near Cape Town for an undisclosed sum. The preliminary agreement has been signed |
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India may follow UK Retail Wine Buying Pattern
Apr 15: Many people may challenge the recent UK study by Cobevco, a specialist contract bottling company in Cheshire, claiming that the perfect wine voted for the UK consumers would be available in supermarkets, red, screw-capped, Australian and cost under £6 according to 70% of those surveyed, but it could be indicative of the retail wine market in India once the FDI in retail is operational and the big retailers start retailing wines. The new research |
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