{"id":15981,"date":"2024-09-11T16:49:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/?p=15981"},"modified":"2024-09-11T18:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:37:13","slug":"item_5_955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/item_5_955\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile Ambassador graces DWC Dinner with Chilean Wines at Lalit"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15981\" class=\"elementor elementor-15981\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4720b6a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4720b6a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-53f09f7\" data-id=\"53f09f7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70aab53 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"70aab53\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Posted: Wednesday, 11 Sep 2024 18:07<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ad9e937\" data-id=\"ad9e937\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cccb2a7\" data-id=\"cccb2a7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9669605 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9669605\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b62f3ec\" data-id=\"b62f3ec\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0e78f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c0e78f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><h1 class=\"articlepagetitle_heading\">Chile Ambassador graces DWC Dinner with Chilean Wines at Lalit<\/h1><div class=\"articlepageintroline\">Sep 11, 2024: The Delhi Wine Club (DWC) Dinner organised at The Grill Room, Hotel Lalit with Chilean wines as the Protagonist on 8 September, was a big hit with some of the members even to sit-out due to the full capacity of the Restaurant, writes Subhash Arora, Chairman Emeritus of the Club, who had invited the Chilean Ambassador, H.E. Juan Angulo and whose informal presence with his wife added charm and oomph to the evening as did that of the Export Manager of Ventisquero, Remy Hoenn who had flown to Delhi especially for the event and present the wines.<\/div><div class=\"articledata\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16000 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-176x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chile Ambassador graces DWC Dinner with Chilean Wines at Lalit\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-602x1024.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-768x1306.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a>Delhi Wine club has been promoting Chile as the trove of value for money quality wines with the first dinner as far back as in 2003. When Charles Donnadieu, Corporate Sommelier of the Lalit Hotel in Delhi proposed a wine dinner at the Grill Room with Chilean wines (private labels), the club organisers were rather ambivalent at first. The wines are not widely available and the taste was not familiar. Always willing to experiment with new wines, Arora requested a Tasting of the wines and the President of the Club Mukul Manku immediately got an instant invite from <strong>Charles Donnadieu<\/strong> for Tasting<\/p><p>The Menu had been crafted keeping the 3 wines from Fides Import in mind. <em>Vendimia de Tempo Sauvignon Blanc 2022, Vendimia de Tempo Carm\u00e9n\u00e8re Gran Reserva 2020 <\/em>and <em>Vendimia de Tempo Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva 2021<\/em> were the wines selected for the Chilean Troika. While we tasted the first two wines, we were quite impressed with the taste and decided to pull out all stops. What made us more decisive was the proposed presence of <strong>Remy Hoenn<\/strong>, the Shanghai-based Export Manager of Ventisquero who are the producers of the wine with 26 years of experience.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_lft\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-lft\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.30.31.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15989\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.30.31-300x138.jpeg\" alt=\"Michel Koopman, Remy Hoenn and Mrs. Angulo at the dinner table\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.30.31-300x138.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.30.31-1024x472.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.30.31-768x354.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.30.31-1536x708.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.30.31.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-lft\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Koopman, Remy Hoenn and Mrs. Angulo at the dinner table<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The icing on the cake was the acceptance of my invitation by the Chilean Ambassador, <strong>H.E. Juan Angulo<\/strong>. He is known to walk the extra mile for such an opportunity of Chilean wine Promotion and despite being a Sunday event and despite hectic schedule hosting the recent 4-day <strong>India Chile Summit 2024<\/strong> in Delhi and Mumbai with 2 ministers and several important leaders of the industry in various agencies including ProChile and Wines of Chile, he was all smiles when he and his charming wife entered the <strong>Petit Caf\u00e9<\/strong> where an ingenious presentation of \u2018Aperol\u2019 with Prosecco and Greek Vermouth and the delicious \u00a0breads from the hotel \u2018Nannery\u2019 got the members salivating for an enjoyable evening ahead.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_lft\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-lft\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.37.49.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15985\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.37.49-138x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Arora welcoming the Ambassador H.E. Juan Angulo\" width=\"150\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.37.49-138x300.jpeg 138w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.37.49-472x1024.jpeg 472w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.37.49-708x1536.jpeg 708w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.37.49.jpeg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-lft\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arora welcoming the Ambassador H.E. Juan Angulo<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The Ambassador gave a brief talk though he had been informally circulating amongst the members throughout the evening, clearly one of the most affable Ambassadors of our time, even though he was our guest in an informal capacity. He wondered why Chile is considered a New World even though it has been a wine producer for almost 500 years, thanks to the Spaniards. He talked at length about the uniqueness of the geography of Chile and how the different Appellations were coming up from East in the Andes Mountains and West towards the Pacific Ocean. He emphasized that the Appellation system was very strict assuring you of quality wines.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_lft\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-lft\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.33.46.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16004\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.33.46-300x138.jpeg\" alt=\"Arora with Charles Donnadieu in the Grill Room\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.33.46-300x138.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.33.46-1024x472.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.33.46-768x354.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.33.46-1536x708.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.33.46.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-lft\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arora with Charles Donnadieu in the Grill Room<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Stressing the passion of Chilean producers, he asserted that they are constantly improving the quality of their wines. Chile may not be making the best wines in the world but they are definitely the best wines at the price they are sold, with an attractive PQR. With high taxes, they offer interesting opportunities to the importers and excellent PQR to the consumers. Ambassador Angulo also stressed the Mediterranean climate of Chile that makes wine a great partner with the Med- food.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_lft\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-lft\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.41.42.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.41.42-300x228.jpeg\" alt=\"Protagonistd of the evening\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.41.42-300x228.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.41.42-768x584.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.41.42.jpeg 969w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-lft\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protagonistd of the evening<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>He also praised both the Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve and the Carm\u00e9n\u00e8re Grand Reserva of the evening as popular reds from various valleys in Chile in different local microclimates, though he preferred the latter personally.<\/p><p>He said the consensus was building up in Chile to call <strong>Carm\u00e9n\u00e8re the signature grape of Chile.<\/strong> DelWine has always been recommending it for the last couple of decades but there had been some problems in grape ripening, leaving a green taste in the mouth but it has now been sorted out. Also there used to be some confusion between Merlot and Carm\u00e9n\u00e8re because they are very similar but it has now been categorized accurately in the appellations.<\/p><p>One feels that Chile will soon make concerted efforts through ProChile and Wines of Chile to promote this grape as the signature grape, like Sangiovese for Italy, Pinotage for South Africa, Shiraz for Australia and Malbec from Argentina. The Carm\u00e9n\u00e8re Gran Reserva was definitely the winner of palates and many rightly felt that the fuller bodied wine with more structure could have been the wine for the main course.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_lft\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-lft\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.44.17.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16016\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.44.17-129x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Our Treasurer Sumita Lahiri filled in for the President very gracefully and effectively\" width=\"129\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.44.17-129x300.jpeg 129w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.44.17-442x1024.jpeg 442w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.44.17-663x1536.jpeg 663w, https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-11-at-16.44.17.jpeg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-lft\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Treasurer Sumita Lahiri filled in for the President very gracefully and effectively<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The members were so motivated by his interaction that many were seriously planning to visit Chile next year. We even discussed with the Ambassador the possibility of more rational flights cutting down the travel time. This would increase the Indian Tourist trade flourish like it has recently to countries like Georgia where direct flights have made Georgia Flavour of the day for Indians. He was well aware of the situation and hoped something could be done soon about reducing the travel time and making it more convenient.<\/p><p>Such discussions and debates are a common observation at the Delhi Wine Club just as the serving of Extra Dry Prosecco served with the dessert, with many feeling it should have been served as Aperitif, even though today most members were happily gulping it down the ubiquitous off-dry Italian Prosecco from<em> Ca\u2019 del Doge. <\/em><\/p><p>A word of appreciation is due for the chefs and the Service Staff who put their heart and soul to make sure the full house would remember the evening for the taste, wine and food match which is a specialty of Charles Donnadieu.<\/p><p>For the record, our President<strong> Mukul Manku<\/strong> has been overseas on a visit and our Treasurer <strong>Sumita Lehiri <\/strong>did an excellent job of filling in for him- looking at the minutest of details very deftly, including the Lucky Draw. A memorable experiential evening for members and hopefully also for our special Chilean guests, <strong>Mrs. And H.E. Juan Angulo.<\/strong><\/p><p>For details about the winery, please <u><a href=\"https:\/\/ventisquerowineestates.com\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\">visit<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/menu.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Menu for the Evening<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Subhash Arora<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: Wednesday, 11 Sep 2024 18:07 Chile Ambassador graces DWC Dinner with Chilean Wines at Lalit Sep 11,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,55],"tags":[704,702,447],"class_list":["post-15981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-headlines","category-restaurant-feature","tag-chile-ambassador","tag-chilean-wines","tag-dwc-dinner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","slider-bg":"","card-grid":"","card-list":"","morenews-featured":"","morenews-large":"","morenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/category\/other-headlines\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Other Headlines<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/category\/restaurant-feature\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Restaurant Feature<\/a>","tag_info":"Restaurant Feature","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15981"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16031,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions\/16031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}