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My wine experience during my stay in India was eye-opening. If you told me five years ago that Indians would put down their bottles of Johnny Walker Black Label for a glass of Shiraz, I …

Everybody in the west is nervous about climate change. Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth and The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change in the UK have recently highlighted the dangers. The wine …

The study of wine fascinates me. The more I study the more I know how little I know. This, however, cannot stop me from pursuing the subject of my choice. For, knowledge is infinite–knowledge is …

Reva K Singh of Sommelier India was featured on NDTV recently discussing wine in India and the growth of wine related journalism. NDTV also published an accompanying news story in which they said, “Wine journalism …

It is the practice of removing unripe bunches of grapes in midsummer in order to reduce the yield per plant and increase the quality. Unlike other plants which will abort excess fruit, such as the …

Have you ever imagined yourself soaking away your stress in a bathtub that is filled with wine? Or maybe taking a shower where instead of water there’s champagne oozing out? Well, the Chateau Indage Estate …

There’s no shortage of imagination in the wine industry. All you have to do is to study a couple of bottle labels or even taste a range of wines to know that. Well, now LVMH …

The wines you drink actually tell a lot about you. For example, drinking Pinot Noir makes you a person who is knowledgeable and with a fondness for luxuries. Pinot Noir drinkers like to charm and …

Kapil Grover of Grover Vineyards was quoted in a Hindustan Times article the other day about a new Vir Sanghvi show. He said, “Wine making is easy and only the first 200 years are difficult.” …

Did you know that wine was discovered by a woman? According to Persian mythology, she drank the fermented juice from grapes stored in a jar, went to sleep, and surprisingly woke up cured of a …

Setting Bordeaux wine prices is a tricky business as Sandrine Bégaud of Chateau Rauzan-Segla explained to me over lunch at Chateau Kirwan during the En Primeur week. As business people, wine producers and merchants always …