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Good Earth Winery’s New Offerings
With growing number of wine drinkers, India has already started creating impact on wine world.
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Alpine Wineries- Impending Star of Southern India
In order to flex their oh-so valuable vino palates, Wi-Not members tasted some worthy wines
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Fratelli Wine Session At DSIIDC
DSIIDC is one of the few corporations involved with the retail sale of liquor in

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Prosecco – The Italian “Champagne”
In the world of sparkling wines, Prosecco is a rather under-rated wine. Thinking of popping
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Sauternes: Liquid Gold of Bordeaux
Ever wondered what to pour with that apple tart or ‘Gulab Jamun’ (Indian Dessert, deep
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Champagne: The French Sparkles
Are we happy today? Oh yeah, lets open a Champagne baby!!! Or are we sad?

Issues more »
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The Price is Right? Maharashtra Chapter
When the Republic of India was formed, the Constitution gave each state the right to
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Delhi Excise Blues
After a lot of queries and even more asking around, we try and crumble the
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Exporting Wine to India
This is perhaps the most important set of questions that we get asked – How

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Outlet Wine-list Engineering and Stock Management
If we at Wi-Not had a penny for every badly written wine list in the
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Wine & Beverage Marketing Strategies
For those who are already in the wine business in India, we can make ourselves
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Retail Promotions
Retail is undoubtedly the most undervalued entry-point for wines currently in the country and with

Other Recent Articles
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Pillitteri Icewines For Christmas

If a wine aficionado thinks of Canada the first thing it strikes thou is the liquid gold of Icewine (http://wi-not.biz/2010/04/icewine-a-royalty/) treasures the country possesses. It’s not where it originally hailed from but surely did take a dual citizenship there later. Icewines are a treat for those who like pampering their sweet-tooth in style. The luscious [...]
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A Spanish New Year

Did you know that in Spain, children don’t traditionally receive gifts on Xmas Eve but on the day of the Epiphany, i.e. the 5th of January? Did you also know that it isn’t Santa Claus but the Three Kings (Los Reyes Magos) who bring these gifts? Given that there were three of these oriental kings, [...]
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The Budding Gems At ISC 2011

The time of the year when the Armageddon calls all the hotels and restaurants to bring out their best armor to battle it out for the throne of the best wine-quotient in the business. Indian Sommelier Championship continues its legacy for the fourth year and makes it the best of the lot so far. With [...]
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Chateaunuef-du-Pape Makes A Statement

To speak of the wines of the Rhone valley almost, to many a novice, seems to be a discussion of the wines of Southern Rhone, and more precisely, the wines of the region baptised Chateauneuf-du-Pape (CNDP). The recent masterclass in Delhi heralded a new beginning for these wines. We thought we knew something about them [...]
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Valduero Comes To India

A lovely little Spanish house recently brought their wines to India and presented the impressive array to a few enthusiasts. The wines were fantastic, coming from regions as diverse as Rioja and Toro, and of course their flagship, the Ribera del Duero. We stumbled upon Valduero when Magan was visiting a winery in Jordan and the [...]
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Wine Society of India’s New Offering

The Wine Society of India (WSI) sends out some pretty fun mixed boxes of wines. We decided to play inspector and see just how good is good so recently, we intercepted one such box, hijacked it at gunpoint, brought it home, and then made it reveal whatever it was hiding. The wines were released back [...]
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Thelema: The Will of God

Thelema is Greek for “God of Will” and this is pretty much what must have helped the Webbs install their wine dreams on their new farm (which used ot be an orchard earlier), back in the early 1980s. And that, by the way, is a Phoenix on their logo, not a duck or eagle or [...]
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Welcoming Framingham Wines to India

New Zealand wines are already well known and this time around it was the turn of Sogrape to bring in the popular Framingham range to India. Sogrape was founded in 1942 by Fernando van Zeller Guedes, a very determined entrepreneur. Presently, the third generation of the founding family is handling the company which has over [...]
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The Royal Wi-Not Tasting

When we christened our little wine endeavour Wi-Not, we did so with the idea of being ready to take on new challenges head-on. In a country where wine was only beginning to become famous, there would be many such “new” tasks to tackle. But even then, we had never anticipated that one fine day [...]
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The Wine Sceptre

The last time I read of the word sceptre, I think it was referenced in a Tintin comic. So rare today is this bejewelled accessory of yore that even the mentions are jaded. And then, when Ashish Bhasin, a vibrant young entrepreneur and inventor of all things-useful-yet-at-first-bizarre, handed me one, I didn’t know what to [...]
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Evan & Tate Comes To India

Grammatically and phonetically this name has caused enough internal debate. Arguments were presented as to whether it is pronounced “Evans” or “Ivaans”, to which the reply from the winery came, “Depends how posh you are; but Evans is fine.” I could further try and split hairs for the sake of argument, and agreement of numbers, [...]
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Sweet Drops

Among the many perky advantages of working at Wi-Not the only one singular one that boys voluntary turn up for and on time are the tastings. A regular affair on our work calendar, we all congregate and taste, mostly blind, an array of wines that we have managed to get our hands on. These can [...]