|  Although the wines have not been seen much in the market so far-especially the Chardonnay varietal, it is by far the best medal standing by any Indian winery in an international competition so far. KRSMA also bagged a Gold for the Cabernet Sauvignon and Silver for the Sauvignon Blanc.
Four Seasons' Ritu Sauvignon Blanc 2012 has won a Gold medal while
Ritu Shiraz 2012 and Ritu Chenin Blanc 2012 have been awarded a Bronze Medal each.
Another relatively new winery, Alpine that has come up with the enological support of the French international consultant Stephane Derenoncourt has also bagged Silver medals for their Vindiva Classic Sauvignon Blanc 2011, Vindiva Reserve Shiraz 2010 and Vindiva Classic Shiraz 2011.
The competition is different from other international competitions in that the 100 odd judges tasting the wines are mainly importers from Hong Kong and China, though sommeliers are also a part of the juries. The website also takes pride in the fact that the wines tasted are exclusively for the Chinese market, thus indicative that Krsma, Four Seasons and Alpine Wineries are targeting the difficult Chinese market.
Sula has already made efforts, done the home work and is sending the first shipment to China next week for the launch of their wines in October. It would appear that Indian producers are heading towards China to grab a bit of the burgeoning Chinese market.
Surprisingly, the Award certificate does not specify vintages of the winning wines or the date of issue of the certificate. It bears the signature of Kelly England, President of CWSA only.
The list of Indian winners may be incomplete as the website does not appear to be very user-friendly with no categorization of awards by the country and class of medals, like most other international competitions of repute, to help easy indexing and reference.
delWine is an avid supporter of participation by the Indian producers in the international wine competitions, depending upon the markets they want to penetrate. It gives an independent and hopefully unbiased opinion of wine experts.
As promised by delWine, publishing the result of a competition in which an Indian wine wines a gold medal, we salute Krsma wines and hope that they will continue to win such medals in other recognised and respected international competitions where producers, sommeliers and journalists are judges.
For complete results, please contact http://www.cwsa.org
Subhash Arora
Thanks to the efforts of Indian Wine Academy to promote Brand India, Four Seasons was invited to showcase their wines at the World Wine Symposium at Villa D'Este, Italy where 250 of the who’s who of the wine industry congregate every November. This year Krsma Estate wines will be available for tasting to this august gathering-editor
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