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Vintage Wines Ties up with Vintage Distributor Prestige
Oct 15: Mumbai based Vintage Wines, owned by Yatin and Kiran Patil has announced a tie-up with the Torres’s Indian joint venture Prestige Wines and Spirits as the sole distributor for its products on a Pan India basis, writes Subhash Arora who feels this is a positive step for the Indian industry and that this courtship could result in a marriage lasting a life-time due to the potential synergies, the previous not-so-successful attempts in the industry  notwithstanding. Confirming the statement by Sumit Sehgal, Director and head of the All-India operation of the |
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Interview - Dheeraj Bhatia : Story of a Successful Sommelier
Oct 13: From Rajkot in the dry State of Gujarat to the Duty-Free Hong Kong where he is the Chief Sommelier in one of the top luxury hotels, Peninsula, Dheeraj Bhatia has come a long way because of his grit, determination, hard work and passion for wine. Subhash Arora had a chat with him at the hotel during his recent visit to Hong Kong and shared his vision and aspirations and his motivational advice to the budding sommeliers in India. Hotel Peninsula Hong Kong is located in Tsim Sha Tsui in South Kowloon. It is the oldest and one of the highly rated super deluxe hotels of |
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Wine & Food Travel: Qvevri Wine Making Tradition of Georgia
Oct 16: Qvevri wine-making has been practised for centuries in Georgia where there is currently a surge in popularity after this traditional form was given the UNESCO Heritage Status last year, with other countries like Italy, France, Australia, Austria and Germany now evincing interest in their use, writes Subhash Arora who visited several wineries in Georgia using qvevri and feels that the good winemaking practices are equally important even after their 8000 years of usage. Novices might quiver at the thought of not knowing about Qvevri wines of Georgia or find it queer that |
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Alchemy: Wining and Dining in the Dark in Hong Kong
Oct 13: While Hong Kong has innumerous restaurants available for handsome eating at various price points-including those with a cumulative 85 Michelin Stars and the people spoilt for choices, for those looking for adventure and a unique wining and dining experience, the recently opened Alchemy Restaurant offers an interesting French-dining opportunity in Hong Kong, writes Subhash Arora who was one of the wine judges attending the gala dinner hosted by the organisers of the Hong Kong International Wine and Spirits Competition which concluded a day later on |
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Hong Kong Wine Competition Successful despite Occupy-Central
Oct 13: Despite a few days of amber light due to the Occupy-Central pro-democracy movement initiated by the students and youth of Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago, the 6th edition of Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine and Spirits Competition was conducted proficiently and successfully, writes Subhash Arora who has been invited to judge at every edition and has made five consecutive appearances since inception. It must have been a few frustrating and anxious days for the organisers of HKIWSC with the possibility of postponing the competition |
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National Wine Conference in Karnataka
Oct 15: Karnataka Wine Board is expanding its wine promotion activities outside Bangalore, the Capital city of Karnataka by organizing an ambitious national level conference on the Indian wine industry and types of wines produced, from October 17-19 in Hubli, the second largest city and the fastest growing city of the second biggest wine producing State, located 420 kms north of Bangalore. KLE Society's College of Business Administration (CBA) is conducting the wine fest, in association with the Karnataka Wine Board, Bangalore, the department of |
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