Beer Review: Bohemian King
The latest beer to hit the shelves here in Delhi is being touted as ‘the first Czech beer in India’. Bohemian King is conceptualised and branded for India, using the knowhow of the folks at Brevnov brewery in Prague, which…
Microbrew Mania in India
The funny thing about life is that nobody is happy with what they are. Street food wants to be upmarket, gastronomy desires demystification, wine craves friendliness, and beer, oh lovely beer, yearns complexity and nuance. For those of us partaking…
New in the market: KRSMA Wines
The Indian wine scene is agog with activity right now and each passing year sees the inauguration of a bevy of new wineries. The most recent one to impress me was KRSMA. Although not exactly a new winery, it has…
Sicily: A Continent of Wine
Earlier this year a group of journalists and industry men gathered in Mumbai for a Master class on Sicilian wines. The workshop, organised by Subhash Arora, President of the Indian Wine Academy, in association with the Sicilian Institute of Wine…
Say hello to KRSMA WINES
A new winery is all set to enter the Indian wine market – Krsma Estates. Owned by Krishna and Uma Chigurupati, the winery is based about 70 kms out of Hampi, near Hospet reservoir. A long-cherished dream of the Hyderabad-based…
Metaxa: The Spirit of Greece
Published in Liquid magazine September – October 2012. Written by Karina Aggarwal From its beginnings in the tiny Greek isle of Piraeus in 1888, Metaxa – ‘The Original Greek Spirit’, has found its way to over a hundred…
Armageddon: World’s Strongest Beer (for now)
It’s always fun to see brewers try to one-up each other in their efforts to brew ‘The World’s Strongest Beer’. A heady title, that, and the latest to claim it is ARMAGEDDON. Scottish Brewery Brewmeister’s Armageddon beer has an incredible…
The Grand Cognac Culture
Published in Liquid magazine July – August 2012. Written by Karina Aggarwal Think cognac and immediately your mind drifts to an image of a wood panelled room with a distinguished gentleman sitting in a red leather high-backed chair beside a…
Vallonné Vineyards Winemaker’s dinner
On Tuesday night (February 22) Vallonné Vineyards hosted a winemaker’s dinner at Bungalow 9 in Bandra. A very intimate affair, Vallonne’s winemaker Marie Barbé took us through their range of wines and Chef Rajeev Basak put together a special menu to…
Weekend Vineyard Getaway
I had the most amazing weekend. I was one of the lucky few bloggers to be invited to the Fratelli estate in Akluj. We set out from Bandra at 7am, and after a seven hour journey and a few hiccups…
The story of Fratelli Wines
In the Sholapur district of Maharashtra, near the town of Akluj, lies a 240-acre vineyard. This sprawling vineyard belongs to three sets of brothers – Alessio and Andrea Secci, Kapil and Gaurav Sekhri and Ranjit and Arjun Mohite – Patil,…
KF Beered Up
If I wasn’t sold on the positives of being Twitter-literate earlier, I definitely am now. The #KFBeerUp was legendary. And for any beer enthusiast, nothing matches the excitement of a tour through the brewery of their favourite beer. On 17…
Doh! A deer!
When I saw pictures of BrewDog’s The End of History beer, I was pretty disturbed, but looks like that was just the beginning. On July 22, 2010 BrewDog released their new craft beer – The End of History packaged in…
Brewing a Storm!
Let me tell you a story. A story of two boys who wanted to change the oppressive world they were living in. So they dreamed. A dream to break the shackles of bureaucracy and guide people onto the correct path….
Georg Riedel: Shape does matter
Published in Ambrosia magazine, March 2011 With Indian drinkers getting more wine-literate over the last five years, wine etiquette is becoming increasingly important. And I’m not talking about just that pretentious bunch that has the four S’s (See, Swirl, Smell,…