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India’s wineries seek to change the taste of millions
STEPHANIE NOLEN
NEW DELHI— From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Dec. 26, 2011 7:07PM EST
Vinod Tandon was savouring a glass of bright, fruity cabernet
franc-shiraz at the bar in his club in Delhi last week when his wife
Monica uttered words that cause him to sputter and nearly choke.
“It’s not bad for an Indian wine, is it?” mused Ms. Tandon, holding her
glass up toward the light.
“Indian! Indian! Is this Indian?” gasped Mr. Tandon.
Why yes – his glass of red was Indian, from Fratelli Wines, the rising
star in India’s wine scene. The Tandons had come to the Delhi Golf Club,
a bastion of the city’s moneyed elite, for a wine-tasting event, part of
a dogged effort by its nascent wine industry to woo over a nation of
spirits drinkers – or at least the growing market segment with a taste
for Western ways and rupees to spend on luxuries.
Mr. Tandon collects whiskies – but he worked abroad for years and
appreciates wine as well, so he might have seemed like an easy sell. But
he refused to believe that a wine he enjoyed could be Indian.
Gagan Sharma, the evening’s sommelier, listened to him with a sort of
resigned dismay. This image problem dogs India’s wines, both abroad –
where Indian wine is viewed as a novelty but not something one would
want to actually drink – and domestically, where the tiny pool of wine
lovers are sure that imported must be better.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/indias-wineries-seek-to-change-the-taste-of-millions/article2283971/
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