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…
X’mas special: Baking with Cointreau
Since Cointreau is filled with so many Christmas memories for me, this year I asked my master baker sister, Alysha to whip up some chocolaty Cointreau x’mas goodness. Here is her recipe for a Cointreau Chocolate Fudge Cake with Cointreau poached oranges….
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,…
Austrian Wine Tasting: Schloss Gobelsburg
Last week Aspri Spirits brought Michael Moosbrugger, CEO and winemaker of the famed Austrian winery Schloss Gobelsburg to Mumbai. With vineyards in Austria’s Kamptal region, this historic winery which dates back to 1171 was owned and operated by Cistercian monks…
Hétreau’s Art Deco Wine Maps
If you liked my last post about The Metro Wine Map of France, you’ll enjoy mulling over these ones too. These maps were made by a celebrated French artist, printmaker, illustrator and designer called Remy Hétreau. Drawn up sometime in…
Of Cazzews & Cawcawnuts
Goa- India’s favourite holiday destination. A city where people work their way around afternoon siesta breaks and where everyone knows stories about everyone else. A city infested with speed breakers and when there aren’t any, the shadows of the palm…
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…
World’s most influential wine book – a Manga comic?
I’m a great fan of all things that take the implied ‘snootiness’ out of wine drinking. So when I heard that a manga series is now the most influential wine text in the world, I just had to read it….
A Homerkin, anyone?
Did you know that 90% of what people say is conveyed through just 7000 words? I didn’t, and it seems like such a waste that so many words in the English language lie unused, fading away as the years go…
Barley and Me
A year ago the only thing I liked to drink were mojitos, and maybe the occasional caipiroska doused with sugar syrup and mint leaves. And as much as I would’ve like to be part of the beer-drinking gang instead of…
The Hangover
Since I’ve been promoting alcohol, all types of it, I think it’s only fair that I help with the morning after as well. And look what I found… Hangover remedies from around the world. Personally the Dutch seem to have…
Green vs Brown – Which would you choose?
So yesterday as I was handed a pint of Kingfisher beer, I chose to share with a friend the fact that green bottles have been proved to be worse for storing beer than brown. He laughed at what to him…
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….