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Blog: Chucking the Two-buck Chuck
Aug 11: Charles Shaw Wine commonly known as Two Buck Chuck because of their price tag in the stores owned by the Distributor -Trader Joe’s and even won a Gold Medal at a California State Wine Competition once, is under the lens not only for the low quality but health issues reportedly due to mechanical harvesting and no sorting, thus  bringing out the issue of cheap imported wines in India and potential challenges for the FSSAI to spot wines that |
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Ailing Nashik Wine Industry
Aug 14: A recent news item quoting the All India Wine Producers' Association (AIWPA) seeking a Rs 2 billion soft loan package from the state or central governments to revive sick wineries most of which are in Nashik brings out the issue once again of why the industry has not been able to take off despite the growing sales and huge latent pent up demand. An AIWPA delegation was to meet the deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in Mumbai a couple of days |
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We Recommend: Piccini Memoro Italia Rosso
Aug 14: On the 68th Independence Day of India, I have chosen to recommend an Italian wine partly for the historical reasons since Italy became an Independent Republic around the same time as India (a year earlier, in June 1946) but also for patriotic reasons as the winery Piccini brought out Memoro Italia in 2011 to commemorate the 150 years of re-unification of Italy which became a nation state in 1861. Memoro is Latin for ‘remember’. In the fullest sense, |
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TechTalk: French Winemakers Use Science to override Terroir
Aug 11: For long, French have been known to emphasize the terroir factor in winemaking and claiming their wines to be thus unique and superior but a group of winemakers in southwest of France are working on projects using science and technology successfully to create and enhance the flavours from their grape varieties, with a group of co-operatives claiming to have already tripled its sale in five years as a result. Vinovalie, a group of four major wine |
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Chemical Age and not Vintage-based Aging important for Wine
Aug 13: No matter how exclusive the terroir or vintage, the delicate balance of flavours in a bottle can quickly be ruined if poorly stored in a home cupboard or cellar, according to a study conducted by the Italian scientists in San Michele all‘Adige in Trento. It has been opined by wine experts for quite some time now that wine matures faster at higher temperatures even when stored horizontally and in a dark room but the negative reactions that ‘age’ and |
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Viewpoint: Another One Bites the Dust
Aug 13: Another Fine Wine Investment company in UK, Encarta Fine Wines Ltd, bites the dust after 5 years of operation and goes into liquidation reportedly with a sum of over $5 million due to creditors, ostensibly because of their bankers unfairly freezing their banking facilities for 4 months earlier this year. Whenever I read a news item reporting the fall of a fine wine investment company, mostly in London from where Decanter is published, I hum |
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