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V Sanjay Kumar opens a bottle of wine for a special occasion and mulls over the wine as he shares it with his spouse I wanted to open a special bottle, I was in need …

Shobha Narayan says readers should not be deterred by the high price of Burgundy wines because there’s much to be enjoyed that won’t break the bank If you tell Indian oenophiles that you are going …

V Sanjay Kumar enjoys exploring the wonders of Jura wines with his friends, introduced to him by his wine guru My wine guru (we all need one) is a crotchety ancient whose eyebrows are knitted …

I was witness to an epic battle taking place. The scene of the conflict was the bar of the iconic 112-year-old Clube Nacionale in downtown Panjim, Goa. In 2014, part of the building collapsed, fortunately …

In 1972 when Bunny and I were in London for the first time, one of the main topics of conversation, apart from the latest episode of the Coronation Street soap, or what radio DJ …

Will India ever get a genuine wine culture? This is the 64-dolour question often asked, forlornly, by oenophiles. And the short answer to that is that it all depends on Auntie Kutti. Wine faces a …

A question for wine geeks. Have you tasted Côt? Auxerrois? Pressac, maybe? You have. You probably know it by its more commonly used name, Malbec. But like Malbec’s more obscure names, few are familiar with …

Sovna Puri enjoys a real life tasting of French wines in Mumbai. These eight months have been as strange and surreal for you as for me, right? I mean, no outings with friends and family, working …

No, I am not about to present an apologia for uninhibited indulgence in wine to while away the mind numbing hours of the lockdowns: quite the contrary in fact. I am here to propagate a …

My cellar is 90% European, of which 70% is French, and in turn, 35% of that is claret. Even before knowing how long ‘lockdown’ would be, I decided to go “off piste” for evening …

[memberful_register_link]Sign up for a free account![/memberful_register_link] And then came Covid-19… The pandemic has corked the wine business in India, at least for six months to a year Whenever the world talks about the Indian …

Which Wine? Twenty for 2020 Which wine should I drink is a question I am asked more often than I can say. So, as we step into the New Year, here is my list of …