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Here’s wishing you, our wonderful readers, a new year filled with good fortune, health and happiness, and of course, fine wine and happy reading. See you in 2009! The Sommelier India team.

Wondering what to give your family and friends for the festive season? Nothing beats a subscription to Sommelier India, the country’s first and only specialist wine magazine. Each issue has a fabulous mix of articles …

Ultra-luxury Silversea Cruises is toasting the New Year with an exciting new collection of 11 Wine Series Voyages for 2009. Pick an itinerary of your choice on Silversea, an award-winning cruise line, and indulge your …

Here’s a question : Does wine get better with age ? If you’ve answered ‘Of course stupid!’, here’s some news for you. Wineries in China have started scientific trials using electric fields to speed up …

Come November and the entire North India gets into an affectionate winter hug, while other parts run amok, no longer wary of the heat, writes Kulpreet Yadav. It is that time of the year when …

The last thing you want to do is look clumsy when you’re opening a bottle of Champagne this holiday season. Not only will your friends snicker but you may also lose a lot of good …

The last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom saw a new king crowned on November 6. Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk, 28, was proclaimed the next king by his father, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, 52, with the title Druk Gyalpo …

Three factors matter when determining whether a wine is worth collecting or not. Firstly, the wine must have a proven track record of holding well over time. Some wines due to their tannins age much …

The Sommelier India team wishes all its readers a Happy Diwali and a prosperous New Year. Diwali is celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs across the globe as the “Festival of Lights,” where the lights …

The Mandarin Oriental, Geneva, has added two new, world-class restaurants: ‘Rasoi by Vineet’ and ‘Le Sud’, which have already made a mark on the Geneva dining scene among Indian food afficionados and wine lovers. Both …

Did you know that acidity is the quality of wine that gives it its crispiness and vitality? A proper balance of acidity must be struck with the other elements of a wine, otherwise the wine …

The KBR School of Wine is the first wine school in the country to be associated and affiliated with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust of UK. WSET offers the most comprehensive and contemporary wine …