No. 598 : : April 22, 2014

Assistant Editor : Natasha Vohra

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Restaurant Week India 2014: It pays to be a Gourmet in Bangalore
Apr 16: If the Restaurant Week organized from April 18-27 by Citibank with key sponsors is an indication, the residents of Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai are in for an extended week of gourmet lunches and dinners but Bangalore takes the top medal for offering the best deal, writes Subhash Arora after taking a look at the Menus in all 3 cities and picks Yauatcha as the Pick of the Week. ‘Eight Days a Week’ -one of the famous songs from The Beatles

Chateau Margaux: Sauvignon Blanc is a Sauvignon Blanc…unless it is… Pavillon Blanc
Apr 21: Chateaux Margaux is well established as the First Growth Bordeaux Chateau for its red wine but it is not common knowledge that it produces a small quantity of Pavillon Blanc made from Sauvignon Blanc, tasting of which should be on the wish-list of every connoisseur, feels Subhash Arora who tasted the ‘09 with two reds last Saturday at the Taj Mahal in the company of the visiting trio of Alexandra Petit- Mentzelopoulos, owner Corrine’s daughter

4G Wines : Most Expensive South African Wine Screaming to be Eagle
Apr 19: In a country that started making wines 355 years ago and still known for value-for-money wines, 5 years is like a blink of an eye but for 4GWine Estate of South Africa, it has resulted in creating the most expensive wine costing US$360, not only the first to breach the $100 mark for a South African fine wine but costing the equivalent of next 4 most expensive wines of the country and aspiring to be their equivalent of Screaming Eagle, writes

IHG to target Indian Travelers to expand hotels in India
Apr 19: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) plans an unstoppable expansion in India with 85% of the 150 hotels planned during the next decade or so being in the medium price segment, targeting the Indian tourists who are expected to travel more and more with every city approachable by airlines being the target for a Holiday Inn or Holiday Inn Express, according to the COO of this region, Mr. Pascal Gauvin. A few years ago I was invited by a friend

Disgraceful Fall of Hotelier Sant Chatwal in America
Apr 22: The New-York based controversial Indo-American hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal has been indicted by the Federal Court in New York after pleading guilty in a straw donor scheme to illegally finance Presidential and other political campaigns and faces a jail term of 25 years when the verdict is announced on July 31. Chatwal pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Brooklyn last Thursday to circumventing federal campaign contribution laws and

A Wine and Health Study you need not read about
Apr 22: A new study conducted by a leading scientist with good credentials from the World Health Organization claiming that drinking a bottle of wine a day will not harm your health needs to be taken with a couple of glasses of wine to help you move it to the Trash Folder after you have finished reading it, warns Subhash Arora who advocates drinking wine in moderation. If you like to unwind with a glass of wine, then this might be the news you’ve been

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