Wine To India

Chile is looking to introduce its national wine, Carmenere in the Indian market with the South American country scouting for importer for the spicy red wine, according to a report in The Times Of India. Carmenere, a vintage French wine, was rescued by Chile 150 years after it disappeared from vineyards across Europe. The soft wine which tastes of pepper, blackcurrants and spices complements spicy Indian fare laced with green and red chillies.

Chile is looking to introduce its national wine, Carmenere in the Indian market with the South American country scouting for importer for the spicy red wine, according to a report in The Times Of India. Carmenere, a vintage French wine, was rescued by Chile 150 years after it disappeared from vineyards across Europe. The soft wine which tastes of pepper, blackcurrants and spices complements spicy Indian fare laced with green and red chillies. "Chile has the seventh largest presence in the foreign wine segment in the India after France, Italy, Australia, UK, New Zealand and South Africa. We export different varieties of wine to India but we are eager to introduce our national wine, Carmenere, to this country where people are beginning to enjoy wine," Christian Barros, Ambassador to India, Chile said at a wine tasting show in the capital.

Chile looks to introduce national wine Carmenere in India - HospitalityBizIndia

The dapper French envoy to India, Mr Jerome Bonnafont, is leaving New Delhi this week after a ‘happy and personally satisfying' four years.

It is one of the main points discussed in the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the EU. It is important that the import duty structure makes it possible to export French wine to India which we believe is not at all against development of wine production in India.

In India wine is only two per cent of the total alcohol consumption and the rest is other alcohols. Wine is extremely marginal and there is vast room for improvement. We are convinced by our culture that one can have wine as a health drink when it is taken in reasonable quantities by knowing what you drink and how to drink it.

French Ambassador to India speaks on import duty on wine in India –Business Line - Indian Wine Portal (blog)

The dapper French envoy to India, Mr Jerome Bonnafont, is leaving New Delhi this week after a ‘happy and personally satisfying' four years. For him, India was not unfamiliar as he began his diplomatic career at the French Embassy in the Capital way back in 1986 as Second and later First Secretary. Asked about the high and low points of his diplomatic tenure in India, the envoy was quick to say: “I do not see any low points. But I am sad to leave India because it is a country I dearly love. I enjoy the culture, the people, its landscapes and monuments —all are special to my heart. This has been four wonderful years and I regret having to go”.

The Ambassador recounts “many great achievements including the agreements in the strategic domains, the two visits — of the French President, Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, to India and that of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to France in 2008 and 2009 — our space cooperation and the first French-Indian joint satellite Megha-Tropiques to be launched shortly, all of which are extremely fulfilling”.

It has been a very active four years for bilateral relations with the two visits — of President Sarkozy to India and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to France. The President and the Prime Minister will meet again, maybe in Cannes, on the margins of the G-20 Summit in November. The French Prime Minister recently said that he hopes to be able to visit India soon. All these, at the highest level, reflect a highly fulfilling political relationship.

What we call our strategic dialogue is based on three pillars, which are improving. First is anti-terrorism and here we have made tremendous progress in operational cooperation against terrorism. France has always been on the side of India against international terrorism. The second pillar is our Defence relations, because we believe that France and India both contribute to peace and stability in the world.

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The South American country is scouting for importers to push the wine to India, where awareness of wine as a delectable beverage has been growing since the last decade.

Carmenere, a vintage French wine, was 'rescued' by Chile 150 years after it disappeared from vineyards across Europe. The soft wine which tastes of pepper, blackcurrants and spices complements spicy Indian fare laced with green and red chillies .

Carmenere, a vintage French wine, was 'rescued' by Chile 150 years after it disappeared from vineyards across Europe. The soft wine which tastes of pepper, blackcurrants and spices complements spicy Indian fare laced with green and red chillies . "Chile has the seventh largest presence in the foreign wine segment in the India after France, Italy, Australia, UK, New Zealand and South Africa. We export different varieties of wine to India, but we are eager to introduce our national wine, Carmenere, to this country where people are beginning to enjoy wine," Christian Barros, the ambassador of Chile to India, said at a Chilean wine tasting show in the capital.

The display of Chilean wine at the Hotel Lalit on Tuesday evening featured 10 brands, including the traditional Carmenere and Malbec red wines, typical of the Latin American region.

Swig of spicy red Chile in Indian wine glass - Times of India

August 24: After an amazing run that lasted for over five years, Gary Vaynerchuk, the social media celebrity announced yesterday on the 89th and Final Episode of the Daily Grape that he was retiring from the daily wine broadcasts, that being his last, with no reason giving about his sudden decision to call it a day.

After a successful run of 1000 episodes of Wine Library TV-downloaded short segments of programmes he taped on different wines he relayed from throughout the world wherever he was travelling, Gary had shifted gears and started with the Episode 1 of Daily Grape on March 14 this year –‘Kicking Things off with 2009 Bordeaux at Whole Foods’. In 5 months he had covered 89 episodes of the Daily Grape which was essentially a technically advanced version of the Wine Library TV. The reasoning he gave for the switch in the first episode was the world moving to mobiles and hence his motivation to move to this platform and with iPads and iPods coming to the market , he felt that the communication was faster and the future was in this segment..

After a successful run of 1000 episodes of Wine Library TV-downloaded short segments of programmes he taped on different wines he relayed from throughout the world wherever he was travelling, Gary had shifted gears and started with the Episode 1 of Daily Grape on March 14 this year –‘Kicking Things off with 2009 Bordeaux at Whole Foods’. In 5 months he had covered 89 episodes of the Daily Grape which was essentially a technically advanced version of the Wine Library TV. The reasoning he gave for the switch in the first episode was the world moving to mobiles and hence his motivation to move to this platform and with iPads and iPods coming to the market , he felt that the communication was faster and the future was in this segment.. ‘Thank you to all the Wine Library TV and Daily Grape fans that have made this chapter of Gary’s life so gratifying,’ was his curtain call on the Facebook which has been full of complimentary farewell messages for him by his FB friends. Known as GV to his fans, he has been popular for his thunderous style of presentation besides giving a layman’s perception. He was known to often pass derogatory remarks about many of the wines his father sold in the brick and mortar wine shop-the style helping him increase his viewership and the wine sales.

Though the reason for his sudden retirement plans are not disclosed, it is being speculated that there was not much money in it though it got him a lot of name and fame, rubbing shoulders with the who’s who of the wine industry in a short time. Daily episodes (almost) might have caused a burn out too. But his enthusiastic face will not be forgotten by his fans for a long time.

Gary Vaynerchuk Retires from Daily Net - Indian Wine Academy