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Blog: A Wine Bet I Hope to Lose
May 20: Chinese MNC, Tiens Group, is set to launch an e-commerce portal in India, where it would reportedly sell specialty products from 119 countries including Bordeaux wines from France, according to a media report but I am willing to bet a hamper of 12 top Indian wines with anyone that it would not be allowed to sell wines from its portal.  Miracles are known to have happened in Christianity and perhaps in other religions too. There are legendry tales |
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Michelangelo Awards enters 20th edition
May 18: Michelangelo International Wine and Spirits Awards, the well-known wine and spirits competition of South Africa, enters its 20th year with a record number of local and foreign entries expected. The judging panels consist of 21 international hand-picked judges for the blind tasting and awarding of Platinum, Double Gold (Grand’Or), gold and silver medals, writes Subhash Arora who has been invited for the third time to judge at the momentous judging |
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Prowine Asia 2016: Armand de Brignac - Cattier Marriage ‘Made in Champagne’
May 20: Armand de Brignac Blanc de Noirs introduced in 2015 at an astronomical retail price of $1,000 became one of the highest priced champagnes in the world but the label owned by the rapper Jay Z is produced exclusively by Champagne Cattier in Chigny Les Roses in Champagne and makes truly a world class top quality champagne, writes Subhash Arora who tasted a couple of labels when he met Sebastien Besson, CEO of Armand de Brignac and |
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Steven Spurrier Sparkles in Napa with Bride
May 17: Exactly 40 years after the ‘Judgement of Paris’ that was orchestrated by him, when Napa Valley wines came ahead of their Bordeaux counterparts, the then wine merchant and now an influential and respected expert, Steven Spurrier has launched his Bride Valley English Sparkling Wine in the US through the exclusive importers Boisset Collection which organised a friendly ‘Judgment at Napa’ at Raymond Vineyards on Sunday May 15 at |
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TechTalk: Amorim launches Natural Corks with No- TCA Guarantee
May 18: The Portuguese natural cork producing major, Amorim claims to have achieved a major technological breakthrough to become world’s first cork producer to deliver natural cork closures to wine producers in six countries with a non-detectable TCA guarantee, using technology that has not only been successful in trials but is also being independently validated on performance, says Subhash Arora. Known as NDtech, the state-of-the-art system |
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Wine and Health: ‘Roast’ to Good Health
May 20: You may like to ‘raise a toast’ to good health if you go by yet another study based on monkeys and published in Journal Frontiers in Physiology, which hypothesized that resveratrol and therefore red wine which has plenty of this anti-oxidant would counteract the negative impact of a high fat or high sugar diet on the hind leg muscles. Dr. J.P. Hyatt of the Georgetown University in Washington DC and his team came to this conclusion |
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