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Blog: Dinners with Wine vs. Wine Dinners
June 17: While conducting several wine tastings and wine dinners I have come to realize that most people do not know the finer differences between a Dinner with wine and a wine dinner with a Gala wine dinner being bigger in terms of number of wines though the meal courses may remain the same in all these cases. Subhash Arora reports,Dinner with Wine is exactly what it says- a dinner where wine is served with the dinner |
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Bigger Bang for the Buck: Wines at Taj Vivanta Surajkund
June 18: Although most 5-star restaurants have kept the wine prices very high, a few wines are at least affordable and quaffable. In order to help our Indian wine lovers we recommend a few such wines of drinkable quality and also so that you don’t get lost in the sea of several unknown or expensive labels. In this edition we focus on Hotel Taj Vivanta Surajkund, Haryana, which has an exhaustive list and several sub-Rs. 2000 prices that are very attractive, |
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Decision on restart of India-EU negotiations soon
June 16: Now that the dust is settling after a convincing victory of the BJP with a progressive and result-oriented Mr. Modi at the helm, the suspended negotiations between India-EU Foreign Trade Agreement may move forward soon but only after a scrutiny and possible re-think on the contents, according to the statement by the new Commerce and Industry Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman. It is too early to predict India’s stand but Subhash Arora hopes |
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Sula to fly Economy with Air India
June 14: Sula Vineyards has added another first to its list of achievements by getting a red wine listed to be served aboard the national carrier Air India which will start serving Sula Reserve Shiraz 2012 in the economy class during international flights, writes Subhash Arora who learnt about it during the Sula Sunshine Soiree organized at the Shiro Restaurant on June 11 for wine professionals and other invitees |
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Harvest Report: The 2013 Vintage in Bordeaux Part 1-Weather
June 14: The chaotic vintage of 2013 still produced some great sweet wines and very fine dry white wines but red wines were the losers as weather conditions did not allow for GREAT wines.However, skill, insight, pragmatism, adaptability and enough money made it possible to deal with adversity and make a small number of very good wines, writes our writer and Bordeaux weather expert John Salvi MW who gives a detailed account of weather leading |
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Touch of Chivas Regal in Jacobs Creek Wine
June 18: Indian Scotch whisky drinkers might soon be lured to wine when they learn that Jacobs Creek owned by Pernod Ricard, makers of Chivas Regal Scotch and Jameson Irish Whiskey, is releasing on July 1 a premium Shiraz and a Cabernet Sauvignon aged in old casks used to store Scotch and Irish Whisky, giving a touch of their favourite tipple to the wines, writes Subhash Arora who feels it may be a while before these are available in India |
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