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Blog : Excise Quagmire in Delhi and India
Nov 05: A piquant situation arose in Delhi last week when the excise department started levying restaurants and hotels additional duties of 20/30% on imported wine and liquor despite the excise policy announcing no change in the taxation. As expected, this was rolled back yesterday but brings back the perennial question and fear that if customs  duties are withdrawn after a possible EU-FTA agreement in a few years, the excise departments in different |
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delWine Panel Tasting: Going Czech with Wines
Nov 09: The delWine Tasting Panel had a unique opportunity last week to taste 7 wines from Moravia region in the South of Czech Republic, thanks to Subhash Arora who had organised them from 3 wineries- Bzenec, Krist and Templar Cellars of Cejkovice and invited the two ladies importing them for the Czech embassy and who were visiting Delhi for possible exports to India, for a private tasting at the Pullman Aerocity. Many people in other countries |
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HKIWSC 2016: Grover Zampa Tops again but KRSMA steals Show
Nov 10: India has broken the previous record of medals at the Hong Kong International Wine and Spirits Competition by bagging 19 medals in the aggregate with Grover Zampa bagging 10 including 2 Silver but the boutique winery KRSMA having a record haul of 9 medals including a Silver with a little bit of help from the food and wine match segment of the competition, writes Subhash Arora who was again a judge and the Panel President at the 8th |
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Fratelli adds Tuscan Cecchi to Imported Portfolio
Nov 05: Leonardo Raspini, General Manager of the Tuscan family-owned 4th generation wine producer Famiglia Cecchi is in India to meet various wine stakeholders in Delhi and Mumbai, as a couple of their red Tuscan wines are ready to be introduced as a part of the imported wine portfolio of India’s third largest producer Fratelli Vineyards, writes Subhash Arora who was invited to an exclusive lunch yesterday to chat with him and Andrew Gardiner, |
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Let’s Go Deutsch with 4 Century- old Heinz Pfaffmann
Nov 10: Weingut Heinz Pfaffmann is truly a historic German wine estate in Pfalz (Palatinate) region, which was founded exactly 400 years ago in 1616 and has been family owned with 18th generation running it, with 4 out of the wines made from 35 grapes exported to India through Mumbai based wine and spirits importer Flipsydee, writes Subhash Arora who tasted the three wines being sold in the North at a private Tasting at Pullman Aerocity |
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Royal Suggestion for Indian State Banquets
Nov 10: Serving as a Royal policy, of the English sparkling wine Gusborn Blanc de Blancs 2007 at the Columbian Royal banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace about a week ago, brings to mind the earlier plea of delWine to the Government of India to consider serving not only Indian Sparkling wines but various other fine quality domestic wines, to recognise their quality and promote them in the world market, writes Subhash Arora |
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