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Global Perspective: Sula Stake Sale shows Industry has Bright Future
May 02: The recent news about Everstone Private Equity disinvesting its 30% stake in Sula to Anil Ambani’s Reliance and the Singapore-based Ravi Viswanathan’s Private Equity group Visvires for an unconfirmed amount of Rs.2 billion, with Ravi having already invested significant amount in Grover Zampa earlier, is a positive signal that  Indian wine industry has a very bright future, the present bottlenecks and hiccups notwithstanding, writes |
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DWC Dinner: Delhi says Ai to Far Eastern cuisine
May 10: The members of the Delhi Wine Club were treated to glimpses of Chef Vikram Khatri’s talents at a thoroughly enjoyable wine dinner at Guppy by Ai, writes Arun Batra. Around the turn of millennium, if you talked about sushi and sashimi at social gatherings you would be invariably given a disgusted look and the words “raw fish- yuck”!! But the Delhi diner has come a long way since then, primarily due to the travel bug which has bitten |
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Star Interview: Full of Berries -Simon Berry
May 12: Simon Berry, Chairman of Berry Brothers and Rudd (BBR), the historic wine merchants of London, enjoys his coveted position as the Clerk of Royal Cellars, that brings him close to the Royals but he would not share many details during the exclusive lunch Subhash Arora had with him discussing the fascinating past of the 315-year old family business and the exciting future ahead besides a peep into the working of the Wine Cellar of Queen |
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Passing By: Nick Pringle of Hardys
May 12: Nick Pringle, the London-based Commercial Director of Accolade Wines in Australia, looking after the Indian market for Hardys Wines recently visited Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi where he met Subhash Arora jointly conducting Hardys Degustation Evening with five labels at the Delhi Golf Club Bar to a full house of members lapping up the evening of cheese, Hardys and snacks. The WSET Advanced Level Certified, Commercial Director of |
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Homecoming for Concours Mondial Bruxelles
May 10: Concours Mondial de Bruxelles returned to its home base of Brussels to celebrate the 20th anniversary with a record number of 8750 wine and spirit samples submitted from 58 nations, to be judged on May 2-4 by 310 Jurors from 51 countries including India, writes Subhash Arora who made his sixth appearance at the competition, starting with Valencia in 2009. Concours Mondial de Bruxelles is one of the biggest wine competitions under the |
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New Government unlikely to benefit Retail
May 12: Despite the new government being stable and improving the growth rates of India, it is unlikely to bring any benefits to the domestic retail industry unless it spells out its foreign direct investment (FDI) policy for the retails sector in which foreign investors have held back investments due to lack of clarity, claim the industry experts. “Everyone is talking about a stable government and growth prospects of the country. But I do not feel there is |
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