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Grape Processing Board (IGBP). On the weekend of 14 -16 Feb IGH was hosted as a grand three day event at the Wine Park, Vinchur, Nashik. India?s finest wineries and boutique wineries participated in this larger than life event in the wine capital of the country, Nashik.This prestigious event was inaugurated by Honorable Minister Chhagan Bhujbal and...
Mr. Francisco Javier Elorza Cavengt, Spanish Ambassador to India and Chetan Seth, Chairman and MD, The Chemon Group host an intimate Cigar and Malt special evening with Ian Millar, Global Brand Ambassador, Glenfiddich for the city?s elite Nov. 22; Delhi: Last night, Mr. Ian Millar, Global Brand Ambassador, Glenfiddich conducted a malt appreciation ...
Steven Spurrier dines with The Wine Society?s Best Customers and Founding Members
Mumbai
28th October, 2013
Steven Spurrier, one of the world?s most influential wine critics, will be jetting into Mumbai on the 28th and 29th of October to conduct a series of wine events with The Wine Society of India, of which he is Chairman.
These events will...
INDIAN FOOD &WINE TASTING EVENING, BANGKOK, 6th September, 2013 Experts suggest that there is a literary and archeological evidence that wine has been known to India since 5 BC. Since then it was known as Drakshasava and Madera served even in the tenure of ancient Kingdoms. Indian wine industry is an emerging Industry, which has shown in recent...
Wine consumption in India is rising at a 'stupendous' rate ? particularly among women, a new report says.
Consumption has grown nearly 25% in the last five years, according to Indian Wine Market Outlook to 2015 ? Surging Demand by Women published by a private marketing company AM Mindpower Solutions in New Delhi.
Indians consumed some 620...
An annual Wine Festival being
organized since 2008 in GOA by GTDC
A four day extravaganza of wine,
cuisine and entertainment.
Goa
Tourism Development Corporation Limited (GTDC) had arranged its annual wine
festival, ?Grape Escapade 2013?, from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th on the
Sports Authority of Goa?s ground at Campal on the outskirts of the ...
India
Grape Harvest
Wine
Festival 2013 Dates:
February 23 & 24, 2013
Venue: Meuse
JUPITER
Business & Luxury HotelPathardiPhata, Mumbai Agra Highway, Nashik
Maharashtra,
India.
Stuttgart meets Mumbai ? 9thWine festival Meeting point for partners from politics and business, film & media, tourism and the wine industriesPress Invitation Contact: rajeena.pflug@indo-german.comMumbai, 08.01.2013 ...
The Sicilian Master classes on wine conducted by Subhash Arora and Michele Shah in the presence of the producers who came with the delegation organised by the Sicilian Regional Institute of Vines and Wines in four Indian cities were so successful and appreciated by everyone that they have decided to visit India again on January 21-24 with top produ...
Sula, which has a 70 percent share of India?s wine market, is using the vineyard visits to this end. The company says 600 to 700 day-trippers or resort guests drop by each weekend for a tour, a meal or a drink on the balcony bar.
The mixed clientele on a recent Saturday suggested that wine?s appeal is broadening: motorbikes as well as BMWs filled ...
Jagdish Holkar, chairman of the board, said, "Our first board meeting with the government departments on wine legislation was held on Friday. The discussions were held on product definition, quality standards, standard label and standard practices. It was also decided to take the wine industry into confidence and invite suggestions from them. ...
Cecilia Oldne, the head of international business and the global brand ambassador of Sula Vineyards, says ?consistency can make India a leading wine producer.? Oldne, in her five years with the company has taken its products to 20 countries, 10 more than when she came on board.
Over the years, Sula has pioneered many classic grape varietals in Ind...
Even as wine making is still to be legalized by the state government, the 'Scotland of East' has been raising a yearly toast every winter for a decade now.
"People know about the local rice-based brew called 'Ka Kiad' in Khasi, but few are aware of wine being made of rice," said Derby Shullai, whose rice-wine was a major ...
In Bangkok at the Indian dinner at a Conference on Indian Writers in English, a fabulous insight was shared by a very sophisticated Thai academic who?s a Sanskrit scholar and world traveller and also very knowledgeable about wine. Sipping a glass of our homegrown red, he said, ?Indian wine reminds me of South African wine, it?s the same soil.?
I g...
The founder and editor of the country's leading wine magazine Sommelier India is a woman. Reva Singh saw an opportunity back in 2004 'when India had no wine culture', as she puts it, but today she has about 20,000 regular readers, and subscribers in such 'second tier' cities as Allahabad and Shillong. Even the prime whisky state...
Into a very niche profession of a sommelier or a wine taster, Sovna Puri is at present the marketing head of tasting and training at Sula Vineyards. She is also working as an educator of wines and conducts courses run by UK-based WSET, in Mumbai.
Puri finds a certain curiosity factor around this drink in India. "Wine lovers are eager to know ...
All Things Nice, the Indian Wine Consumer's Choice Awards 2012 (IWCCA) was held on Nov. 10 at ITC Grand Central in Mumbai. Godrej Nature's Basket was also a partner for the IWCCA. As part of the partnership they allocated a shelf showcasing the winning wines for a month at all their outlets pan India.
Commenting on the event, Mohit Khatta...
Nagpur Wine Lovers' Club is organizing a home made wine making competition to promote wine culture in the city. "There are several families of the city, most of them Parsis and Christians, who have been making wine at their homes since ages. The aim of the competition is to bring the wine enthusiasts at the same platform," said Sharad...
Pune-based Akalpit Prabhune, an alumnus of the city?s most premium engineering college gave up a 10-year long career in IT to set up Hill Crest, a new wine company, and go commercial with pineapple wine a year ago. The product, branded Rhythm, has been so well-received in Pune that he and his Mumbai-based partner Gulu Jagtiani are now launching a s...
All Things Nice has announced the first Indian Wine Consumer's Choice Awards 2012 (IWCCA). IWCCA 2012 is scheduled to be held on November 10, 2012 at ITC Grand Central, Mumbai. All Things Nice will bring together all domestically produced wines (premium category) and will have these wines tasted and assessed by the actual consumers themselves. ...
Perhaps the export market is promising, as India seems to have just now cracked the quality barrier. After all, a Syrah and Ritu Viognier from Zampa in Maharashtra state flew off the shelves of Waitrose in the UK when it was trialled this time last year. And the international reputation of nearby Sula Vineyards continues to grow.
More: Drinks Busi...
Although efforts have been made to export Indian wines for 25 years, the ?balance of trade? between Indian wines exported and imported wines is still terribly one-sided, with only about 35,000 cases exported against some 300,000 cases of wines imported into India in 2011-12. The value would be even more skewed, since Indian wines tend to be priced ...
Priyanka Dhar is the first Indian woman to have acquired a Masters in Viticulture and Enology from UC-Davis!
The knowledge gained during her master?s program at UC-Davis proved invaluable during her internship with Louis M. Martini in St. Helena, Napa. ?As a result of this internship, I felt confident both in my theoretical and practical knowledge...
The British historian Christopher Bayly is part of a delegation from Cambridge University to attend the India-Cambridge Summit on the subject ?India in the Global Age?. For a generation of history students in Indian universities, his book Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars, a study of north Indian society during British expansion, was standard recommende...
Grapevines enjoy a winterless wonderland in the tropical wine country of India. That is, they would enjoy it if their keepers didn?t induce the dormancy of the deciduous vines by hacking them down each spring. ?See you after the monsoon,? says the farmer to his stumped vines, and he walks away with his rose clippers to tend to his cashew and mango ...
A leopard was spotted in Sula vineyards late in the evening on Saturday following which a panchnama was done but only on Monday morning.
The leopard that has been spotted in the vicinity in the past few years, is known to have done no harm to human beings neither has it destroyed fields nearby.
"The leopard has been roaming in this vicinity...
Deciding what wine to drink in a restaurant is a major headache for most people, as just one in eight of us (12.4 per cent), are confident about it, a survey has revealed.
More than a quarter pass the buck to friends rather than risk making a mistake and only a fifth would ask the advice of the waiter, according to the French Wines with Style rep...
The global auction market for fine wines, which saw more than $500 million in sales in 2011, is expected to shrink to about $400 million this year as supplies and credit tighten.
Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, one of the five Premiere Cru Bordeaux, has seen its 12-bottle cases of 1982 that regularly sold at auction for $60,000 and even $80,000 as rec...
In a major effort to build "Brand India" in China, over 80 Indian companies will take part in a trade show in Beijing Oct 26-28 to look for synergistic business engagements. Bilateral trade in 2011 stood at $74 billion. Both countries have set a target of $100 billion by 2015.
As part of the show, an Indian wine festival will be held by ...
The International Wine & Spirits Research, a global research firm, has said that India has the least-developed wine market of all the BRIC countries and recommended India to be treated as a 28 country market and not as a federation.
"There is a trend among the young and affluent to take on Western trends, but wine does not always suit Ind...
Model turned wine connoisseur, Shamita Singha was in town to host a wine appreciation session as the brand ambassador for Four Seasons Wine for the Expat Club of Pune at Le Meridian on October 17. Having completed a diploma from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust in London, Singha has also attended many short term workshops and seminars across Eu...
New Delhi, September 20th, 2012: Diversified Communications, the leading convener of Food Exhibitions across four continents, organized the second edition of Fine Food India 2012. The three day event was held at Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre in New Delhi from the 17th to the 19th of September, 2012. Over 3500 retailers, buyers, importers, hotel...
Mumbai, Sept 21, 2012: Tilaknagar Industries Ltd. (TI), a leading and well established player in the Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) industry, remains committed to expand their position in the IMFL space with the focus on expanding their product portfolio and geographic presence. With these expansion plans, Dr. Keshab Nandy has been promoted to ...
Winemaker and enologist Valerio Mondo, grandson of famous winemaker Franco Mondo from Piedmont, Italy, visited India recently. He shares, ??India where more people are waking up to the taste of wine over other alcoholic hard drinks.?
More: The Hindustan Times
The weekend package at Fratelli Vineyards consists of a three days-two nights stay. Guests will be treated to a spread of gourmet meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as a visit to the vineyards at Motiwadi and Gharwar, along with a cellar visit and two exclusive wine tasting sessions.
"Through this package, one can rejuvenate, make...
Chilean wine Valdiviesco has entered the Indian market, and its distributor hopes to change the whisky-drinking nation's taste.
Christian Barros, ambassador of Chile, is happy with the brand launch here.
"Vina Valdiviesco has been consistently the most rewarded Chilean winery around the world, obtaining the most prestigious awards in Fr...
The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) in its endeavour to promote Indian wine on the global map is organising a promotional event ?Wines of India? on July 27, 2012, in New Delhi.
To mark the new-age arrival of Indian wine, the evening would display some of the finest Indian wine brands. The diplomats ...
Sparkling wine has a significant market share in the
overall wine market in India in terms of both value and volume. This is the
second biggest product segment in the wine market, next to Still Wine.
Consumption frequency analysis reveals that the usage pattern remains largely
unchanged across all age groups, whereby most consumption falls in t...
Agnetta International launches ? Vina Valdevieso?
the most Premium Chilean Wines in India
-The first sparkling wine producer in Chile &
Latin America
India based leading distributor of premium
portfolio of International?s alcoholic beverages brands, Agnetta International launched the finest and most celebrating, World
famous Chilean wines...
Alok Chandra shares:
A ?Reserve? wine is simply one which has not been released for sale immediately after the wine is ready, but has been kept back for further maturation in cask and bottle for a given time period. Generally, the basic quality of a Reserve wine would be better (than, say, ?Regular? wines) ? it would be made from the best-quality ...
The ?Puglia Best Wine Consortium? ? a group of seven wineries that have voluntarily come together to promote their wines. They recently hosted the second edition of ?Apulia Wine Identity? ? an event that gathers wine writers and professionals from around the world for a one-week immersion into Apulian wine and cuisine. Apart from the seven consorti...
Q: How have people responded to the idea that wines can be paired with Indian cuisine?
A: "Our food is subtle. It's not in your face, so it goes perfectly with wine. The ideal combination is one of my dishes paired with champagne because it's got a light fizz and works well with the flavors that we offer.
Beer is gassy and heavy; it ...
In India at the moment there is no governing body that ensures that what is printed on a label is 100% accurate so that can also generate some misleading expectations about what it is inside a bottle of Indian wine. The ?Indian Grape Processing Board? is trying to change that with the help of Abhay, who is a part of this ambitious committee.
Here...
New Delhi has expressed its willingness to reduce duties from 150% to 40% on wines above $4 per litre if the European Union gives more access to Indian services industry and labour-intensive goods, a government official said.
"We are ready to open our markets wider for European liquor. But the duty cuts will be above the stipulated threshold ...
Date: 04th July 2012Dear Members,At the first outset, let me congratulate you all successful completion 2 years of tenure of Executive Committee of All India Wine Producers Association (AIWPA) which contributed to wine industry significantly. I as president of association convey my appreciation to all of you for actively supporting me. I am sure wh...
A decade ago many believed that India's own wine production could grow to rival imports and satisfy the increasing demand for wine, yet the domestic industry has struggled to achieve this. Indian vineyards have fought to shake off their reputation for making poorer quality wine and as a result the industry has suffered. Some estimates suggest t...
Sula Vineyards, which has an estimated 65-70% share of the country?s domestically produced wine market of 1.2 million cases, has expanded capacity by sub-contracting and taking over the running of four wineries?three in Maharashtra and one in Karnataka.
Chief executive Rajeev Samant is confident that such contract manufacturing is the way to grow...
Indian wines will be served in various restaurants and pubs at London during the 2012 London Olympics. The Luca wines are created by Nirvana Biosys, the first ever winery in north India.
Not only sauvignons and merlot red and white wines, the wine lovers would be able to taste rare exotic Lychee, Mangoand Rose sparkling wines of Luca.
Nirvana Bi...
Bordeaux Traders has recently opened a new branch in Mumbai, India, due to the significant increase of Indian private investors and institutional investors (also known as Bollygarchs), and the rising demand for fine wine in India.
More Indian HNI?s (High Net-Worth Individuals) are turning to luxury French wines as a way to bolster their investmen...
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