No. 620: : September 27, 2014

Assistant Editor : Natasha Vohra

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GroverZ creates History winning International Trophy at DAWA
Sep 27: If the information received from our sources that are usually reliable, is to be believed, Grover-Zampa has not only beaten all the previous records by any Indian winery, even winning a Gold in a recognized international wine competition but now it has also won the International Trophy for Sauvignon Blanc-a first-time ever, at the 3rd Decanter Asia Wine Awards organized this month in Hong Kong, writes Subhash Arora. The Grover Art Collection Series Sauvignon Blanc 2014 has bagged the International Trophy in its Category. This is the best

Wine & Food Travel: K.I.S.S. Georgia-the Oldest Wine Producing Nation
Sep 27: It is not clear what Paul McCartney had in mind when he added ‘That Georgia's always on my mind’ in his lyrics for ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’ while the Beatles were in India, learning Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, but it could well have been due to the Georgian wines which were so popular in Russia that most of its wines were being exported there-Keeping It Simple, Subhash (K.IS.S.) Arora describes (Wine) Georgia in a simple article after his recent visit to the erstwhile constituent of the U.S.S.R. When people ask me about my latest visit

Star Interview: Jeffrey Davies – Anatomy of a Bordeaux Negociant
Sep 26: Robert Parker, describes the brokerage house of Jeffrey Davies, the first American-born Bordeaux wine merchant as being on the cutting edge of Bordeaux while Decanter calls him the Six Million Euro Man. Pallavi Vatsa, our Bordeaux Correspondent set out to chat with the Californian who chose to study and live in Bordeaux, and find out why Robert Parker considered Jeffrey's reports from Bordeaux as a part of his required reading even before he met him. When you meet Jeffrey Davies, the first thing that impresses you is the smile in his eyes and his

Mama Mia! Go to Goto but Drink Tea not Wine
Sep 24: MamaGoto is a popular Pan Asian food restaurant in Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bengaluru with excellent food at reasonable prices, but you might want to avoid ordering wine from their list which has a limited choice at exorbitant prices, writes Subhash Arora who had lunch at the Bandra, Mumbai property and could not stomach the ridiculously high and irrational prices of wines. We often complain about most 5-star hotels charging exorbitant prices for wine and not passing on the customs duty-free benefits to the consumer. But how do the stand-alone

Annapoorna 2014 gets bigger with EU support
Sep 26: The just concluded 9th edition of the 3-day food and beverage trade fair Annapoorna World of Food India 2014 held on September 24-26 at the Bombay Exhibition Center, Goregaon (E), Mumbai got bigger thanks to the support from the European Union this year, with participation from 29 European food and beverage producers, writes Rojita Tiwari . The B2B trade fair this year surprisingly had more number of consumer-visitors than trade. With participation from more than 180 companies from across the globe, including pavilions from Argentina, Afghanistan,

Rs. 250 Billion worth of Foodstuff reportedly in Peril of Perishing
Sep 27: If you think of wine and spirit industry slowly coming to a grinding halt and if you think this is intentional so that the government may banish the imported beverages by creating indirect barriers, you need to read the media report of Rs. 25,000 crores worth of food pending clearances across the ports in India slowly perishing, and understand through the media in touch with people in the food industry to look at the current scenario regarding packaging and labeling of imported food products. According to a report by ndtv.com 200 tons of chocolates,

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