Bottle-by-bottle notes and blind flights from the Sommelier India tasting panel.
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KRSMA Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 The SI Tasting Panel was blown away with a tasting of the very first vintage of the KRSMA Cabernet Sauvignon at our “Great Indian Wine Tasting†in 2012. Subsequently, in a …
On the 40th anniversary of this famous tasting, which revolutionised the world of wine, Steven Spurrier tells the illuminating back story My invitation to attend the Naples (Florida) Winter Wine Festival came with the request …
It was a chilly evening early in the new year when the members of the Sommelier India Tasting Panel flocked to a warm and well-stocked library in South Delhi to assess, blindly, eight bottles …
The Sommelier India tasting panel got together in early November to taste sparkling wines and champagne. The aim of our blind tasting was quite simple. With the rise in popularity of sparkling wines across the …
Indian wines are catching up on the global scene, which is paralleled with the growth of rosés. Our climate and culinary preferences make rosé wines an uncomplicated and obvious choice. They pair well with our myriad …
A Reserve is a celebration of all the effort that goes into making a wine. This time around, the Sommelier India Tasting Panel revealed some of the finest reds in a blind tasting. Here’s a list …
De Bortoli, a third generation family-owned winery, has re-entered the Indian market through Prestige Wines and Spirits. De Bortoli was established in 1928 by Vittorio and Giuseppina De Bortoli who emigrated to Australia from northern Italy. To begin with, Prestige is importing De Bortoli’s Family …
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 …
Vishal Kadakia of Wine Park, a wine merchant in India with a penchant for importing high quality hand-crafted wines, recently put to test the blind tasting prowess of Indian wine and beverage professionals, over a …
With more choice available locally, I’m now hooked on pink wine. There’s something about a Rosé. Neither white nor red but ranging in colour from onion skin to salmon to a bright cherry, it’s such …
Le Bernardin in New York recently staged a vertical tasting of 32 Gruner Veltiners for the crème de la crème of the international wine scene. “Austrian Monuments: Four Decades of Great Grüner Veltliner” was the …
Come Tuesday, 27th August, 2013, and the Sommelier India Tasting Panel (SITP) will get together for a blind tasting of sparkling wines to assess the particular nuances of each for SI readers and other wine …