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Blog: Piquant Pizza and Wine-Icewine
July 17: Wine snobs would laugh, even I won’t waste a good bottle of icewine with a plebeian pizza but in an interesting situation, I tried the leftover of a chilled Cabernet Franc Rose icewine with a home -made piquant chorizo pizza with sprinkled red chilli flakes and the combination was really swaad (delicious) on the palate, validating my  belief that wines should be matched with food but one should also be experimental and keep in mind individual |
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Bigger Bang for the Buck: Hotel Oberoi Gurgaon Deli
July 18: The Patisserie and Delicatessen at the Ground level at Hotel Oberoi Gurgaon has a whole range of freshly baked breads, cakes, pastries, cheese and charcuterie but the best part of this extension is that there are about 25 variants of wine available, by the glass or the bottle that you may drink there or take away, at an unbelievable price of Rs.345 a glass (AI), making it cheaper than coffee- anywhere in India. In fact I was so flabbergasted with the |
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Hotel Leela Gurgaon: World War III Wine Dinner
July 20: The monthly wine dinners initiated by Hotel Leela Gurgaon’s wine enthusiast General Manager Michel Koopman added another layer when he hosted a dinner at Spectra Restaurant pairing two wines with each dish-one each from the ‘good guys’ and the ‘bad guys’ of World War II , making it a total of 11 wines served with the dinner, writes Subhash Arora who was present with a group of Delhi Wine Club members. A native of Netherland, who |
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FSSAI does a Maggi on Jacobs Creek
July 18: The open secret that the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had blocked the imports of 3-4 containers of Jacobs Creek , the largest selling imported wine brand in India for the last few years, because it contains tartaric acid, has been now revealed by a leading daily, after the case has gone to the High Court where the Order is reserved. After several meetings with the FSSAI, in which the company reportedly gave sufficient |
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Argentine Woman Winemaker to fight National Elections
July 21: The first woman winemaker of Argentina who went on to become the President of Wines of Argentina thrice, Susana Balbo of Domino del Plata Winery has thrown her hat in the ring to become a Member of Parliament from the Mendoza region during the next general elections the process of which starts on August 9 by representing Propuesta Republicana, the centre-right party. “For me the most important priority is to fight against inflation and to rebuild |
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Geisenheim Lady Professor to head OIV
July 20: Professor Dr. Monika Christmann from Geisenheim University, who was elected President of the OIV at the General Assembly Meeting in Mainz, is the second woman in a row to have been honoured with the post following the term of the outgoing President Claudia Quini from Argentina who becomes the First Vice President of InternationalOIV which also unanimously appointed Federico Castellucci as honourary Director General |
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