Bottle-by-bottle notes and blind flights from the Sommelier India tasting panel.
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The SI Tasting Panel met in person for the first time after Covid to taste Indian Sangiovese wines and it was a most rewarding experience. The eight wines we tasted (thanks to the producers who …
In Evelyn Waugh’s novel, “Brideshead Revisited – The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, narrator and central character, Charles Ryder says, “Wilcox welcomed our interest; we had bottles brought up from every bin, …
A virtual wine tasting was organized by the Indian Honorary Consulate in Stuttgart as part of their intercultural program, “Stuttgart Meets Mumbai 2022” on 26th and 27th February. For this special tasting, wine professionals and …
It was great to get back on the road after so many months of not attending any ‘live’ tasting activity and drive to Montalcino, a picturesque crosscountry drive that takes me about 1.30 minutes from …
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 …
Marvellous Malbec. The Sommelier India Tasting Panel entered its 11th year with a recent blind tasting of Malbecs available in India. The wines were uniformly appreciated and at times we were hard pressed to differentiate …
What started about four decades ago as an experimental project, has today converted Pinot Noir into the island country’s second most grown varietal. In the 1970s, vine-cuttings from Burgundy’s Domaine de La Romanée-Conti’s La Tâche …
The wines produced here are among the best of the Right Bank, often leading the pack. Ronald Rens tasted at the château with Alain Vauthier and his daughter Pauline, who is representing the next generation …
At the end of April members of the SI/AdV Tasting Panel met at the residence of the publisher, Reva K. Singh to taste and recommend Spanish wines to consumers and readers of Sommelier India wine …
Rating wine is a very personal experience, says Ronald Rens. A wine rating is one individual opinion of one individual taster at one specific moment and we should be modest about the outcomes. I use …
Following the Southwold-on-Thames Tasting at Farr Vintners in London, Steven Spurrier lists the best Bordeaux wines from the 2015 and 2009 vintages In 1980, Simon Loftus, OBE, chairman of Suffolk brewers Adnams, based in Suffolk, invited some …
Few luxury products are as dependent on the weather for their quality as fine wine is. The 2018 Bordeaux vintage proved that to be the case once more. …