freelance journalist/author based in India writing on travel, food, culture, identity, women, art, and luxury.
Dining with the perfect wine An amateur taster’s notes from the 100-Point dinner in Bengaluru, which featured some top-reviewed wines Last Published: Sat, Jun 23 2018. 12 49 PM IST Shoba Narayan The Wine Connoisseurs at the 100-Point dinner. Photos: The Wine Connoisseurs (TWC) The first wine of the evening is a 2010 vintage M…
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People in America, California particularly, have access to a ridiculous amount of great wines, many sold direct from wineries through wine clubs. Here is a sampling. Naturally, this being written for an Indian paper, there is an Indian angle. Inside Napa Valley wineries: part I An Indian winemaker gets the best out of California…
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Lots of nice wine tastings coming up in Bangalore. One with Food Lover’s Magazine. How best can you describe a wine? KRSMA Estates has invited me to a tasting of their wines next week, and frankly, I am a little nonplussed. Not because I dislike their wines, which I don’t, but because there is this…
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