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A Toast to Toscana
Features18 Feb 2016

A Toast to Toscana

With wondrous wines to drink, top wineries to visit and exciting summer festivals, Somm India correspondent, Michele Shah reveals why Tuscany is one of Italy’s most visited regions Tuscany evokes a Renaissance landscape, with …

Promising Riesling Encounter with the Indian Market
Features15 Feb 2016

Promising Riesling Encounter with the Indian Market

Since 130 years Weingut Wegeler Wine Estate has been producing exclusively high-quality Riesling in the most famous vineyards of the Rhine and the Mosel mostly through manual work with traditional and ecological wine-growing techniques. …

A Crash Course in Wine by Jancis Robinson
Features09 Feb 2016

A Crash Course in Wine by Jancis Robinson

So you want to be a wine expert, but don’t have the time to delve into authoritative tomes of the kind Jancis Robinson is renowned for. She is best known for “Wine Grapes” (Allen Lane), “The Oxford …

Travelling with wine as your guide
Features09 Feb 2016

Travelling with wine as your guide

Visiting wine regions is exhilarating, as you walk through vineyards and soak in the beautiful bucolic landscape. But if you don’t have all the information about the region handy, things can go a little awry. …

CHINA’S WINE PROMISE
Features08 Feb 2016

CHINA’S WINE PROMISE

Who will make the first wine in China that seriously challenges the world’s finest? Many a Chinese wine producer has that aim, and I have so far tasted a handful of wines (mostly, perhaps coincidentally, made …

A humble soup with royal origins
Features04 Feb 2016

A humble soup with royal origins

Our cookbook columnist Margaret Rens shares the recipe of classic French onion soup while enlightening us about French onions and the other ingredients that go into making this delicious broth… I cannot imagine my kitchen without onions. They …

The Great Grover Wine Festival & SulaFest are back!
Features18 Jan 2016

The Great Grover Wine Festival & SulaFest are back!

Celebrating wine and all the other good things associated with it, two of India’s prominent wineries – Sula and Grover Zampa are back with their festivals. While the second edition of “The Great Grover Wine …

Wine Tasting Across Borders
Features17 Jan 2016

Wine Tasting Across Borders

“Recently, I was privy to a very special experience: an online tasting. It’s self-explanatory, but allow me to elucidate, writes Sommelier Magandeep Singh in today’s Financial Express.” This was no ordinary wine tasting because it …