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CMB2023: Memorable Wine Tasting Trip of Croatia (Part 2)
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A group of 20 international journalists (G-20) attending Concours Mondial di Bruxelles (CMB) in Porec left the hotel on the morning of 15 May for an incredibly interesting 3-day experiential tour through parts of North Croatia and Dalmatia to get an exposure to their land, climate and wineries before being dropped off at Zagreb after an exciting trip that gave the group an opportunity to taste wines from several autochthonous gems some grown only in a small area, writes Cav. Subhash Arora who was a part of the trip organised by Vinistra in collaboration with CMB and describes visit on Day 2 and 3
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CMB 2023: Casa Santos Lima most Awarded Winery in 30 Years at CMB
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Casa Santos Lima, the well-known winery near Lisbon in Portugal was awarded Recognition for the maximum number of medals won cumulatively at 30 editions of Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB) since the inception of the competition in 1994, bagging over 300 medals in 1994-2023, writes Subhash Arora who has been judging regularly at the Competition since 2009, has twice visited the winery in Alenquer and has always believed the wines were a good quality great value for money wines from India.
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Vinitaly 2023: The Italian Wine Show as enchanting as ever
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Over 93,000 visitors from across the world came to Veronafiere in Verona to attend the 55th edition of Vinitaly From 2 to 5 April, with about a third of them being foreign visitors from 143 countries including India, writes Subhash Arora who attended the Show again and was impressed by the vigor and energy at the Show that he found 21 years ago though he was slightly surprised by the lower response from the consumers on the last day but the exhibitors were as excited and full of energy as ever before
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Cocchi: Move over Champagne-Alta Langa DOCG is here from Piemonte
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Italy is well-known for Prosecco, Franciacorta, Trento DOC wines and even Moscato d’Asti and Lambrusco bubbles which are generally sweeter but an Appellation that produces amazing sparkling wines due to higher altitudes and lower temperatures is Alta Langa in Piemonte as Subhash Arora discovered on his recent visit to Bava Winery in Cocconato in Asti Piemonte, after attending Grandi Langhe event, when he tasted a range of Cocchi Alta Langa DOCG wines and also Piemonte Brut DOC wines and found them really good and challenging for Champagne and Prosecco
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Robert Joseph : India could produce Great Wines one Day - Part 2
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Whereas in the previous Part-1 we focused on Robert Joseph’s views on the Indian market, I also asked him wine related questions like wine and Food, wine and health and wine competitions and ratings and global wine trends, writes Subhash Arora who tried to found out how he used decades of his wine knowledge to make best business medal for Le Grand Noir wines and make it a very successful venture in the highly competitive world of wines.
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Robert Joseph: India could produce Great Wines one Day – Part 1
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Robert Joseph, the UK wine journalist, critic and author of global repute and a successful French wine producer and an important player in the world of wines, feels that Indian wine quality is a lot better than in the 1990s when he first visited Mumbai, and believes India could produce great wines one day though he would not guess in how many years; and also shared his views about the current global market, writes Subhash Arora who had an exclusive chat with him on the sidelines of MundusVini 2023 of which he is a Director and a fellow judge.
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Grandi Langhe 2023: The Two-Day wine event in Torino hugely Successful
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The two days wine event in Piemonte christened as ‘Grandi Langhe 2023’ organized at the OGR Turin (Torino) was very successful with 240 Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera, Dolcetto and Nebbiolo producers presenting their wines to the attending 3300 visitors from over 30 countries including Italy and India, writes Subhash Arora who attended the Tasting held on 30-31 January, 2023 and also visited a few of the participating wineries during the following 3 days
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Indian Wine Day 2022 Celebrated in Chennai and Pondicherry in Style
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The Indian Wine Day falls on 16 November and it was celebrated in many parts of India including Gurgaon, Durgapur and Bangalore, but a total of seven events were organised in Chennai and Pondicherry by the wine enthusiast, educator and Indian wine lover Chinmaya Arjun Raja, three of them being wine dinners with different Indian wines. Subhash Arora attended two of these events, as shared by Chinmaya
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Champagne clocks record sales in value in 2021
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Despite the pandemic and the growing competition with Cava and Prosecco which sells over 500 million cases annually, Champagne sales in 2021 reached almost 320 million cases showing a 30% growth over 2020 and clocking a record value of €5,7 billion, remaining globally the largest selling sparkling wine, according to Charles Goemaere, Managing Director of Le Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne (CIVC), in an interview last week by Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB). Subhash Arora reports on the secret of Champagne’s continues success and what the future hold for them
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Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB) into 4 phases starting in Calabria
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Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB) has split the competition into 4 different sessions with the most predominant Red and White Wine section tasted in Rende-Cosenza in Calabria on May 20-22, 2022 with the other 3 sections tasted in different countries, writes Subhash Arora who rated about 140 of the 7400 wines offered at the competition, for the 12th time since he started tasting in Valencia in 2009 and hopes to be at the next edition in Porec in the Istrian region of Croatia on 12-14 May, 2023
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Masterclass: Vranec Wines from Macedonia of Alexander the Great
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Of the many benefits of judging at Mundusvini International Wine Competition is an exclusive evening for the judges to attend a Masterclass with Tasting and Dinner that gives an insight into one country/region, and the Spring Tasting 2020 saw Wines of Macedonia organise a Masterclass attended by Subhash Arora who loved the Vranec Wines presented and believes that in a Utopian world, knowledgeable Indian wine lovers would have an opportunity to enjoy these low-cost wines from this small Balkan country winning 41 Gold and Silver medals
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Tuscan Tasting: Arrighi experiments with Wine from Grapes under Sea
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One has heard and seen a lot of cases by now of ageing of wine under sea/lake water after the successful finding of Champagne bottles a few years ago in a sea wreck, but it was interesting to taste a wine labeled as Nesos by winemaker Antonio Arrighi in Elba, from grapes immersed under sea, writes Subhash Arora who tasted the wine at the Tuscan Tasting in Florence last month and found it savoury and unique white
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Mundusvini Spring Tasting gets Record 7500 Entries
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The 26th edition of the Neustadt-based International Wine Competition Mundusvini came to a successful end last Sunday with record entries of around 7500 samples in the Spring edition but as always, the most impressive aspect of the professionally conducted competition was the Results announced on Tuesday the 25th February at 12 pm, 2 days after it was over, reports Subhash Arora who attended the competition for 17thconsecutive time
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PrimAnteprima 2020: New Consortium Vino Toscana for IGT Wines
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Tuscan wine region is divided into several appellations, most well- known being Chianti, Chianti Classico, Montalcino, Montepulciano and San Gimignano etc. but a significant portion of wines as IGT/IGP Toscana was brought under the preview of an independent Consorzio Vino Toscana to represent and defend the 26% wines produced as IGT wines in Tuscany, writes Subhash Arora who met Cesare Cecchi, President and Stefano Campatelli, Director of the Consorzio at the PrimAnteprima event held at Fortezza di Bassi yesterday, on 15 February, 2020
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WBWE 2019: 11th World Bulk Wine Exhibition concludes successfully
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Another edition of the annual 2-day wine event encompassing the world bulk wine business concluded successfully on December 3 at the regular venue Amsterdam RAI where 260 wineries and 450 producers from 24 countries exhibited with 6,000 wine professional from 60 nationalities attending the World Bulk Wine Exhibition (WBWE) writes Subhash Arora who is a regular visitor here and also a judge at the World Bulk Wine Competition held a day earlier on December 1
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