The concept of ‘Mulled Wines’ still remains foreign to Indian palates. Sadly, Mulled wine is a drink that is mainly formulated for cold/ice-laden countries where either the quality of wines made is low or appreciating a chilled wine is quite a task. It is an easy to drink-and-like beverage and is served hot and is [...]
There are brandies, and then, there is Cognac. Brandy is grape spirit procured by distilling wine. Brandies are produced in every part of the world. But, like Darjeeling Tea and Champagne, when these brandies come from a special region of France, named Cognac, and are made using specified grape varieties, namely Ugni Blanc-Folle Blanche-Colombard, and [...]
Not many wine-enthusiasts in this country would know about the characteristics, grape varieties, and origin of Icewine, or even what it is, in the first place. Time has come then to introduce the magical potion to the citizens of this sweet-loving country. What would be better than tasting delicious and yum Icewines (not iced-wines) in [...]
Wi-Not, India’s professional wine consultants, were visited by Loire Valley wine maker Madame Pontbriand of Chateau Des Vaults and offered to taste her wines with us.
The first International Food and Drinks Expo, a one-of-its-kind international expo was held at Hall 11 of Pragati Maidan Exhibition Grounds between the 2nd and 4th of December, 2009. The endeavour of UK based company, Tarsus Exhibition and Publishing Limited, was supported by many luminous of the trade and media. The main support was provided [...]
Spanish Food and Drink Industry Federation (FIAB), Food & Wines from Spain, Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural Marine Affairs (MARM) along with the Spanish High Commission in Delhi organised the first ‘Discover Spanish Taste’ event. Predominantly a Spanish food, gastronomy and wine (of course!) promotion event was held at Taj Mahal Hotel, Mann [...]
Silent-walk-around tasting of Indian wines conducted by Wi-Not Beverage Solutions Private Limited. This was done to experience and learn more about Indian wines.
We always hear people talk about wines being healthy and stylish. Some like to talk about it but still maintain a distance. But some others take it seriously and indulge in it frequently. Vintage Wines’ Reveilo brand and VLCC Spa came together to offer such an evening to the residents of Gurgaon.
L’Ecole du Vin de Bordeaux (EVB) is a part of Le Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB), the controlling body of wines in Bordeaux, France. As they are preparing to introduce their courses in India, they came to India with an accreditation program first time around. The idea of the program was to select wine [...]
An overview of Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair, India’s involvement and activities that took place at the show through Wi-Not’s eye
Wine trip made by Wi-Not sommeliers to the wine capital of Indian, Nashik, and the observations resulted from it
As a part of our vinous Nasik trip, our idea remained to try and visit the upcoming wineries of the region that will one day make the wines of India a global entity and make us proud. In this drive, our first stop was scheduled to visit a young winery named Vallee de Vin. As [...]
Off again on the katcha roads, our next stop was the new upcoming winery by Mr. Shailendra Pai named Vallonne. The road to the winery is still a muddy one and would not allow you to get through on a vehicle. We took the car half way through and decided to walk for the rest of [...]
Rising early next day morning, the roads were constantly wet with drizzles and damp wind blowing across cleaning the dust away. We hit the Dindori Highway on our way to the next winery on the charts. Most of our travelling was on the highway but at times the car went off and on the unconstructed [...]
Again we were on the roads and were relying on the local villagers to help us reach our next stop. A long 10KM drive on unflattened rocky roads and another 8 on the highway led us to Renaissance winery in Ozar. On this drive of 18KMs, vines followed us off and on with some sheeps, [...]
