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Blog: Sweet Wine Symposium in Australia Slightly Sticky
May 07: Australia’s first sweet wine symposium to be held on October 20-12 in Margaret River region and celebrating the diversity of sweet stickies produced in Australia, might focus on several styles but it ought to also discuss ways to popular it especially with foods, writes Subhash Arora who feels that despite their popularity in Australia, sales of sweet wines are either stuck somewhere and not growing globally due to various reasons. The world of sweet wines  is full of exotic wines like Ice-wine, Beerenauslese (BA), TrockenBeerenAuslese (TbA), Vin Santo and several |
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New Delhi Excise Policy to hit Imported Wine Business
July 19: The excise policy for 2018-2019 released today is depressing for the importers as well as foreign producers since the cost of license has been increased, practically by Rs. 50,000 per brand , with the additional Label Registration charges remaining unchanged, hitting directly the smaller and newer importers and choking the variety for the consumer, writes Subhash Arora who feels the policy for wine is an indirect insult to our Constitutional forefathers who get a lip service in the name of Prohibition but in fact the policymakers want to extract from what |
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Sir Ian Botham steps farther than Vijay Amritraj Wines
July 28: Sir Ian Botham, one of cricket’s best all-rounders from UK and till last year also the cricketing Ambassador for Hardys, launched his own ‘Sir Ian Botham’ wine label at the Lords yesterday, joining hands with Benchmark Wines, writes Subhash Arora who is very supportive of famous sports personalities like him and Vijay Amritraj and Bollywood stars bringing out their labels to popularize wine in India but feels Botham has gone steps beyond Amritraj in terms of sourcing, marketing and possibly also production, with already active interests in the Aussie wine
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Penfolds Look-like banned from Export to China by Wine Australia
July 21: Wine Australia has suspended indefinitely the export licence for a Chinese owned Australian wine company, Dalefold, after it was found selling three Penfolds lookalike labels in China without its clearance, in the first such case after the trade organisation was given wider power in April this year to protect Australian wineries’ intellectual property rights in export markets. The Board of Wine Australia, the federal government agency that oversees Australia’s $20 billion wine industry, has suspended the licence to export wines from Australia with immediate effect. This is the |
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Australia Hits the Sweet Spot in China
July 26: Although Australian biggies like Treasury Wines Estate have been working in China for 25 years, it’s the focus on China for Australian producers with their backs to the wall during the recession of 2009 onwards, that has brought them rich dividends today, with exports growing at their fastest rate in the last 15 years, reaching A$2.76 billion in June ending of 2017-18, thanks to the rise of 55 % in China during this period. Wine Australia’s release of fresh figures on Tuesday shows that value growth had been generated in all of the major export destinations |
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BWHotelier FnB Conclave: Thinking Beyond whiskey
July 30: One of the interesting panels at the just concluded FnB Conclave organized by BW Hotelier at Hotel Andaz, Aerocity Delhi was ‘Thinking Beyond Whiskey’ in which 7 panellists from the industry discussed future of whiskey and which other beverages formed the trends, writes Subhash Arora who found the panellists focussed and forthcoming, with consensus at the end that whiskey would be very much a part of the future though its share will keep coming down and taken by newer whiskies, wine, gin and beers like craft beers and from microbreweries |
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