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Features02 Dec 2014
UNESCO honour for Pantelleria low bush vine
This is a big recognition for an agricultural practice where vines of the Zibibbo grape have virtually moulded the landscape of the island’s volcanic soil. Pantelleria, which translates to “very windy”, plants its vines in …
Features30 Nov 2014
Top 10 Wines Revealed. What you should be drinking
Wine Spectator reveals its Top 100 wines of 2014. While no Indian wine is on the list this time, there are certainly some other interesting selections. Each year, Wine Spectator editors survey the wines reviewed …
Features30 Nov 2014
Yellow Tail Founder Charged in Drug Ring
One of the founders of Yellow Tail has found himself in a spot of trouble. Marcello Casella, the youngest brother in Australia’s largest family-owned winery, Casella Wines, is alleged to be part of the criminal …
Features30 Nov 2014
Wine Folly produces the Best Wine Infographic!
If you’re new to wine and are intimidated by the subject, there maybe no better way to get introduced to this world than by a Wine Infographic. Wine Folly produced one such wine infographic which …
Features27 Nov 2014
Watch out for SulaFest 2015
Entering its 8th edition in February next year, SulaFest – the annual extravaganza of Sula Wines promises to be a bigger and better festival than ever before with an impressive international artist line-up. SulaFest is …
Features20 Nov 2014
Celebrating India’s Finest Wines
Besides winning accolades worldwide, Indian wines are being increasingly celebrated in their own country with wine challenges and competitions proliferating, pioneered by the first Indian organised wine competition by Sommelier India way back in 2009 …
Features15 Nov 2014
Wine, Women and Words
3 November 2014: This October, it was the third Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in Kasauli, but the second attended by Sommelier India. The wine was as good as the year before, especially the Sula Sauvignon …
Features06 Nov 2014
Wine Society of India event hosted by Steven Spurrier
Steven Spurrier, one of the world’s most influential wine critics (and Sommelier India columnist) flew into Mumbai on the 5th of November to conduct a “one-night only” event with The Wine Society of India, of …
Features04 Nov 2014
7th Indian Sommelier Championship gathers speed
The 7th Indian Sommelier Championship is gathering speed as the excitement builds up with the Mumbai chapter concluded a short while ago. Now all eyes are turned towards Delhi. The training that primes candidates for …
Features01 Nov 2014
Chilean Food & Wine Fest: long awaited & much enjoyed
Entering its 5th year, the Chilean food and wine festival held at the Crystal Room of The Lalit Hotel in New Delhi (pictured, left) saw a full house. The event was more special this year …
Features30 Oct 2014
Pune’s new wine club – The GrapeWine Oenophiles
With its central location that offers easy access to wineries in Nashik, Baramati, Sangli and Solapur; restaurants with a good selection of wines; a mix of young professionals, travellers, foodies, expats, wine rookies and connoisseurs …
Features29 Oct 2014
Grover Zampa Vineyards stand tall at DAWA 2014
Nandi Hills and Nashik-based, Grover Zampa recently won the first international trophy for the Art Collection Sauvignon Blanc 2014 at the Decanter Asia Wine Awards (DAWA) 2014. Read on for the news report.