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Utsav Australia Comes to an End - Indian Wine Academy Now Red Wine for Digestion Too... Bulli No. 1 to Take Sabb... The fifth and final wine tasting in a series titled Utsav Australia was held at the Australian High Commission, Delhi at the end of last week under the aegis of the Australian Trade Commission. It is a commendable joint effort between the Australian Government and their Wine Industry to promote Aussie wines in India, writes Arun Batra who attended the tasting on behalf of delwine. The Utsav Australia had ben intoduced in India by Austade in conjunction with the Australian Government to introduce some of the lesser known names and smaller producers of wine to a cross section of wine trade importers and hotel and restaurant professionals in India . Full Story: Utsav Australia Comes to an End - Indian Wine Academy Maharashtra's big-bang wine story goes sour - Economic Times More than half of Maharashtra's 58 wineries have either closed down or stopped producing wine due to the glut in the market. Full Story: Maharashtra's big-bang wine story goes sour - Economic Times Niagara chef school shut down - St. Catharines Standard The Niagara-on-the-Lake Culinary School, a private career college that trained students from India as chefs, was raided Friday by government officials and shut down. According to a Canadian Press account, officials investigating the school allege it was operating illegally and students claim to have been exploited by its owners. A spokeswoman for the provincial Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities confirmed the school's shutdown and said fines were coming. Geoffrey Bray-Cotton, who owns the school with partner Janice Bartley, said he has retained a lawyer and plans to appeal a suspension he feels is excessive and unfair. Full Story: Niagara chef school shut down - St. Catharines Standard NOTL culinary school raided, shut down - Welland Tribune NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Niagara-on-the-Lake Culinary School — a private career college that trained students from India as chefs — was raided Friday by government officials and shut down. According to a Canadian Press account, officials investigating the school allege it was operating illegally and students claim to have been exploited by its owners. A spokeswoman for the provincial Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities confirmed the school's shut down and said fines were coming. Geoffrey Bray-Cotton, who owns the school with partner Janice Bartley, said he has retained a lawyer and plans to appeal a suspension he feels is excessive and unfair. Full Story: NOTL culinary school raided, shut down - Welland Tribune Three cheers for enterprise - Business Standard Sometime back, I had drawn a parallel between Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave (1980) and wine in India. The pioneers (Indage, Grover, and Sula) had set up the “First Wave” of wineries in the years before a wine-friendly policy. The “Second Wave” of wineries followed the 2001 Maharashtra Grape Processing Policy — mostly grape farmers, with little understanding of sales and marketing. The “Third Wave” would consist of people with the means and ability to make good wine and market them in India and abroad. Well, the Third Wave is here. There is a terrific lot of wines from new wineries in Maharashtra now becoming available, and while not cheap (remember the adage, “pay peanuts and you get monkeys”?), many of these wines are fully comparable to (if not better than) imported wines, and well worth a try. I visited two very impressive new wineries in Nasik last week — Vallée de Vin, making Zampa wines, which celebrated its first crush with a thumping bash for 250 people last Sunday, and York Winery, marketing good-value wines under the “York” label. Vallée de Vin is a 200-KL winery set up near Sanjegaon, off the Mumbai-Nasik road some 20 km short of Nasik, and promoted by Ravi Jain and Deepak Roy, both liquor industry veterans. The winery is at the base of a hill terraced with rows of wine grapes and has a lovely view looking out towards the Muknai Lake and the three peaks beyond. Their wines are marketed under the “Zampa” label — with an innovative logo that combines the vine leaf motif with an arabesque mask design. The wines have initially been sourced from the best local wineries, and include two whites (Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc), a Rosé, two reds (Syrah and Syrah Cab) and two sparkling “Soiree” wines (a Brut and a Brut Rosé), all priced at between Rs 650 and Rs 900 per bottle. Full Story: Three cheers for enterprise - Business Standard 1 | 2
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