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Wine Fact of the Day ? Wednesday, 19 August 2009
2009-08-19 05:57:00
A brief summary of Tasmania's key wine regions and suitable grape varietals.
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Wine Fact of the Day ? Friday, 10 July 2009
2009-07-14 07:53:00
more about Tokaji… Aszú sweet wines are controlled by by minimum sugar and ‘extract’ requirements (how much juice can be acquired from a bunch of grapes). Traditionally, the concentration of Aszú wines was measured by the number of ‘puttonyos’ of grapes were used to prodcued the wine. ‘Puttonoyos’ are very similar to baskets and are approxiamtely ...
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Wine Fact of the Day ? Thursday, 9 July 2009
2009-07-14 07:50:00
Tokaji (toh-kye): a Hungarian sweet white wine produced in the Tokaj, a region in the north east of the country. Wine s produced in 2 villages in Slovakia are also allowed to use the name Tokaj, since, pre-World War I, they belonged to Hungary. Tokaji is usually made with Furmint and Hárslevel? grapes and sometimes is ...
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Wine Fact of the Day ? Wednesday, 8 July 2009
2009-07-10 05:48:00
Rivesaltes (reev-salt): a village in southern France, north of Perpignan and a name that applies to 2 styles of wines produced there. Both wines are sweet, fortified wines (a category known as Vins Doux Naturels – VDN). Muscat de Rivesaltes AOC, accounts for about 70% of France’s Muscat production and is the only sweet, ...
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Wine Fact of the Day ? Tuesday, 7 July 2009
2009-07-07 18:04:00
Recioto (reh-chee-yo-to): a style of wine produced in the Veneto region in northern Italy. Recioto wines are almost always sweet wines and are produced by selecting either the ripest grapes or the ripest grape bunches, harvesting them late and allowing them to dry on racks in special drying rooms (see image below). What inevitably happens ...
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Wine Fact of the Day ? Monday, 6 July 2009
2009-07-06 09:19:00
Daily wine fact. 06 July 2009 - Vendange Tardive
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Wine Fact of the Day ? Friday, 3 July 2009
2009-07-03 17:45:00
Botrytis: a fungal disease that can affect grape vines, particularly in warm, moist, humid conditions. The bad form of the disease is also known as ‘grey rot’ because it turns the grape bunch a dull grey colour. The benevolent form of the disease is known as ‘noble rot’ because even though the fungus attacks ripe ...
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Wine Fact of the Day ? Thursday, 2 July 2009
2009-07-02 09:05:00
Daily wine fact: Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venice
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Wine Fact of the Day ? Wednesday, 1 July 2009
2009-07-01 07:26:00
Daily wine fact - Barsac
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?catching up?
2009-04-16 06:23:00
After a fun 10 days in Europe – Duesseldorf for ProWein 2009 and then Verona for Vinitaly 2009, it’s back to the daily grind here in India. ProWein was superb: extremely well-organised (Germans, of course!!!) and there seemed to be a lot of good wine ‘business’ taking place, along with some rather spectacular tastings. I promise ...

What?s in a wine tasting group??
2009-02-04 07:26:00
An introduction to the idea of wine tasting groups.
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Introduction to the Indian wine system
2009-01-05 04:27:00
An introduction to wine taxation in India.
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2008-12-30 14:41:00
In a bid to increase my presence on the Internet and to get more visitors to my site, I need to be in the blog top list. You can help by voting for my site by clicking the ’vote for me’ button below. This is simply an acknowledgement to the blog top list people that you have ...

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2008-12-30 14:09:00
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Champagne screams ?Celebrate!?
2008-12-29 19:48:00
A quick reference giving the difference between non-vintage Champagne and Prestige Cuvee...and when to drink them!
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The Perfect End To The Year: On The Wings Of Angélus
2008-12-20 10:42:00
A review of a delightful evening in New Delhi. A Chateau Angelus wine dinner at the Shangri-La, New Delhi.
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My Newspaper Column
2008-12-18 11:55:00
Keep checking this space for clippings from my bi-monthly column in The Telegraph (Kolkata), entitled ‘From the Wine Cellar’. In it, I discuss various aspects of wine, including articles about wine styles and wine culture. Have a read and let me know what you think!       
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The Wine Report 2009
2008-12-17 05:42:00
Wine consultant in India gives a brief summary of the Australian wine industry as reported by Huon Hooke in Tome Stevenson's Wine Report 2009. Includes a brief vintage assessment and wines styles and regions to look out for.
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dot dot dot?
2008-12-01 14:28:00
OK, so this is interesting - at least, the following sites are. They belong to fellow bloggers who seem..umm…interesting. And, what’s crazy is that I think (I hope) that they find this wine consultant (India) moderately bearable at least. One of them - LIFE IN TWO HUNDRED WORDS - I find enthralling - as far as ...

?.formatting..
2008-11-28 16:20:00
Even as a wine consultant in India, the wonders of the Internet never cease to amaze me. Without going into details, let me apologise for the strange formatting and mixed-up styling in the below post. Believe me, it was well beyond my control and I’m still trying to figure out the nuances of wordpress. From time ...