Scotch Malt Whisky Society launch in India
Last week the well-known association for malt lovers, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society was launched in Mumbai. The SMWS was set up in 1983 and now operates in 19 countries with over 26,000 malt-loving members. Ashwin Deo (founder of Turning… Read More
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… Read More
Meet the Mixologist: Tom Yau
Tom Yau has worked as a bartender in the UK, Japan, Melbourne, Perth and even one shift at Arola in India. He is in Malaysia currently, working at the bar/restaurant called The Greenhouse, and is slated to move… Read More
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… Read More
Know your mixologist: Nicci Stringfellow
Nicci has been based in Mumbai for the last four months. She is a consultant mixologist for KA hospitality, handling the bar both at Hakkasan and Yauatcha. She’s even working on KA’s latest project, the Mediterranean themed Otto Infinito which… Read More
Molecular Mixology
I recently attended the Cointreau Cocktail workshop through Ambrosia where Richard Lambert, Global Brand Ambassador for Cointreau gave bartenders and mixologists an education in Molecular mixology. What is molecular mixology? It is molecular gastronomy, but with alcohol. So what is… Read More
The Mumbai Oktoberfest – Round 2
Last October Mumbaikars welcomed to their city the world’s biggest beer festival and they made sure that it lived up to its Munich counterpart. Matching the Germans sip for sip and litre for litre, their response was a surprise to… Read More
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…. Read More
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,… Read More
