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Blog: Allowing Wine Students to Sip and Spit
July 15: With drinking age in most of the Indian cities being over 25 years, it’s anyone’s guess how the hotel and hospitality schools teach students wine tasting, since they are all below the legal age. But in the otherwise conservative US, passionate persons work tirelessly to try and change laws, as was recently the case in California  where the Senate has voted to allow students to taste wine, thanks to the efforts of University professors led |
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KRSMA wins First Gold Medal for India
July 11: Karnataka based relatively new winery KRSMA bags the first-ever Gold Medal for India in a recognized international wine competition with the Sauvignon Blanc 2013 awarded Gold Medal at the recently concluded San Francisco International Wine Competition. Their flagship red Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 had to be content with Silver while Chardonnay 2013 and Sangiovese 2012 won a Bronze each. DelWine had announced a few years ago that |
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Wine Tourism: Somanda in the Backyard of Beyond
July 18: Somanda Vineyards , a boutique winery owned by Pradeep Pachpatil, former Senior Vice-President of Winery Operations for Sula Vineyards is coming up fast, literally in the backyard of Beyond Vineyard Resort being managed by Sula, with the sole purpose of attracting wine tourists through the new facilities to be ready within a month, writes Subhash Arora who visited the winery during a visit to Sula at the opening of their new restaurant |
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Primer: Production Cycle of Cork from Cork Trees
July 15: Problems of corking and the use of screw-caps notwithstanding, production of corks for the wine bottles from the special oak trees called the cork trees that line up the countries in Mediterranean, is a fascinating process which Subhash Arora had witnessed from tree to the making of cork closures and shares with our readers who are relatively young in terms of wine drinking years but others may find it as fascinating as he did when he visited Amorim, |
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Why Wine Whine Australia
July 18: Wine Australia, formerly known as Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation, used to do a wonderful job of keeping the exports honest by checking every wine before it left the Australian shores but replacing the system with only random audits in Australia by flying auditors does not auger well for the reputation of Aussie wine exports, writes Dan Traucki a vocal critic of the new policy, from Australia. I used to be a huge supporter of Wine Australia |
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Leading Auction House settles with Billionaire in Fraud Case
July 18: Investors in fine wines have perhaps found a messiah in the billionaire wine collector William Koch who made an out-of-court settlement with the New York wine retailer and leading auctioneer Acker, Merrall & Condit in the case filed in 2008 in the New York Supreme Court alleging that he was sold 216 counterfeit bottles of wine worth $2.1 million and petitioning for twice the amount besides asking for punitive damages. The last 10 years have been |
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