Columns

A new issue of Sommelier India has just hit the newsstands and you don’t want to miss it! Jancis Robinson discusses blends and finds that there’s much to be said for blending. Ashwini Patel Avate …

We all have pet peeves. Those minor annoyances that for some reason or the other get under our skin. As a wine lover who goes to restaurants more for the wine list than the food, …

Are you wondering how much to tip on wine at a restaurant? What if you ordered a really expensive wine would you still top it up with a tip? Apparently, there’s no established tipping etiquette …

A true revelation for me at this year’s Vinexpo was a (re) introduction to the sweet wines of Sauternes and Barsac, says Harshal Shah.There is still a slight misconception amongst wine-drinkers that these sweet wines …

With temperatures rising across India, it is imperative that you keep your wines appropriately cooled so that they taste their very best when you open them. Keeping them in a dark corner or just stashing …

As India stands poised as one of the world’s fastest growing wine markets in the world, with the potential to raise the per capita annual consumption from one tablespoon to a bottle the subject of …

Sometimes it takes a visiting journalist to capture the essence of a city’s nightlife better than anyone else. This time it was a Wall Street Journal reporter’s turn who covered the nightlife in South Mumbai …

Gurgaon finally takes a lead over Delhi, if only in the realm of liquor retailing. Haryana, and by extension Gurgaon, has allowed the setting up of a shop-in-a-shop, by which a liquor store can be …

Wines, and the names they go by, has a bemused Raghu Bahadur wondering how vintners name their wines. How do you choose a name for your wine? It’s in the New World (including India) that …

Wine and classical music have a great deal in common. Just look at the vocabulary alone: words used to describe a good wine are strikingly similar to those used to characterise musical compositions, vivacious, …

They say the best way to remove red wine stains is to douse the stain immediately with white wine. Other schools of thought recommend soaking the stained item with soda water. The trick is to …

Pouilly-Fuissé (poo-ee fwee-say): a village (actually 2 villages, Pouilly and Fuisse) and white wine-producing region in the Maconnais ares of south-eastern Burgundy, close to northern Beaujolais. The grape in Pouilly-Fuissé is 100% Chardonnay. Pouilly-Fuissé wines …