No. 681: : January 20, 2016

Assistant Editor : Natasha Vohra

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Blog: Bragging Rights and Brands of Wine
Jan 19: Prices of imported fine wines may be extremely high in India, but branding plays an important role, especially if they bring bragging rights, making it important for such brands to create these rights in order to grab a sizable chunk of the luxury market, the mounting risk of fake wines entering the market notwithstanding, like in China where Chateau Lafite is so iconic that the fake versions are as easily available as fake Louis Vuitton bags. With so

Climate Change and Indian Harvest Report 2016
Jan 15: Thanks to the climate change, Maharashtra seems to be experiencing a unique grape growing season with warmer December resulting in advancing the harvest generally by a couple of weeks earlier than usual and the unseasonal post-monsoon rains causing lower yields with a resulting increase in grape prices to as high as Rs. 50 a kg., writes Subhash Arora who collected data from 5 wineries and feels that the Karnataka-based KRSMA

Days of Wine and Roses in Kerala
Jan 18: Thanks to the partial Prohibition in Kerala in phases, allowing the sale of liquor only in 5-star hotels and announcing the gradually closing of all liquor retail stores, but later allowing wine and beer bars, the government has shown a practical way of making people switch to low alcohol products like wine showing an unprecedented increase in sales in December 2015 over previous month. According to a News Report the sale of wine went up by 70%

WBWE: Wine Damage during shipments
Jan 20: We lament the poor storage conditions at the importer, distributor and the retailer end but based on data claimed to have been collected at millions of temperature data points of wine moving around the world by a US based company eProvenance, at least 15% of wine is likely to be cooked on its way to the port of arrival, writes Subhash Arora who attended a Presentation by Eric Vogt, CEO of eProvenance at the 7th World Bulk Wine Exhibition

Study: Red Wine for reduced Impotence
Jan 15: Domestic wine producers may consider increasing production of red wine and consequently the grape prices may jump in Maharashtra and Karnataka with some farmers even looking into switching to growing Blueberries, as Study claiming that men whose diet is rich in flavonoids found in fruit like blueberries, tea and red wine are less likely to experience erectile dysfunction, reaches them. The Study ‘Dietary flavonoids intake and incidence of erectile

Super Consumers help expand Aussie Alcohol Industry
Jan 20: The First Results of the Australian National Health Survey 2014-15 based on analysis carried out on 19,000 Australians by the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research indicates that the alcohol consumption has come down from 22% in 2000 by a third in 2015 to 14.5% but the heavy drinkers known as ‘Super Consumers’ are consuming a greater proportion of alcohol and are at an increasing health risk. In 2008, 21% of the male drinkers consumed

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