Re: [silk] Indian Wine
Sadly, in my opinion all of the current crop of Indian wines are little better than plonk. Given that, the best of a bad lot, IMO: Grover's Viognier - light white, crisp, not too sweet, and not fruit juice. Some of the Banyan wines aren't horrible. Try them all and decide for yourself which you like. I prefer the Chenin Blanc and the Cabernet, but your tastes may differ. Some folks are talking up the Reveilo, but I haven't tried them yet. I'd be up for holding a wine tasting of Indian wines (and I mean an actual blind tasting, not a wine drinking) at my place some time if there's interest. -- Charles Here is a summary of the 2007 India Wine Challenge: Hot off the press are the India Wine Challenge results. 350 wines participated of which 140 won medals. According to Robert Joseph, this is standard and not overly generous in comparison to other competitions. But only 35 Indian wines from 10 wineries participated in the competition. As Mr. Joseph mentioned to us in an earlier interview, this was a very small number. Most of these wines faired poorly but Indus Winery and Vin Vouloir showed promise as newcomers. Sula stood out for its Sauvignon Blanc. Grover which had submitted its 2005s did not do well. The Indian winners included Sula Sauvignon Blanc 2007 (Silver Medal), Vin Vouloir Rose 2007 (Bronze Medal), Sula Dindori Shiraz Reserve 2006 (Bronze Medal), Sula Blush Zinfandel 2007 (Bronze Medal), Seagrams Nine Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 (Bronze Medal) and Reveilo Chenin Blanc 2005 (Bronze Medal). The Top Indian Red was Seagrams Nine Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2007. The Top Pink was Sula's Blush Zinfandel 2007 and the Marquise de Pompadour was the top fizz.
Re: [silk] Indian Wine
Charles Haynes wrote: The Top Indian Red was Seagrams Nine Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2007. I tasted the Seagarms Nine Hills Cab Sauv and did not think it was anything to write home about. Considering my experience, I would be cautious about taking the ratings seriously. This is my opinion, YMMV. If any of you are interested in blind tastings, let me know. I know someone who holds these regularly in Bangalore. Typically, these tastings are for labels that are not yet introduced/available here. Venkat
[silk] Kochi or Kabini
We are planning to do a small trip, say 4 days, later this month. Trying to decide between Kochi and Kabini. Many of you seem to have traveled extensively in India. If I had to make a choice between the two, what should it be and why? Your thoughts may give me additional reasons to choose one over the other.
Re: [silk] Indian Wine
On 16 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which two? I think that is quite important to know. Light and fresh tasting. I suppose it could be fruity as well, if you squint a bit. Quite a nice colour too. -- Alok Established technology tends to persist in the face of new technology. -- G. Blaauw, one of the designers of System 360
Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 08:18:51AM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: http://toroid.org/ams/nice-photo-urls Neat. Whenever I share photos (which is rare) I dump them into a web-visible directory, and process them with a script a la http://leitl.org/ice/ or http://leitl.org/ice2/ It's braindead, but better than nothing. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
Re: [silk] sundarban photographs
Since there seem to be plenty of photography buffs here, let me point the group to a bunch of photos I clicked last month in Sikkim (Gangtok, Yuksom and Pelling) and Darjeeling. We were lucky to get clear views of the Kanchenjunga and other peaks. The photos are at www.flickr.com/photos/venky7 Cheers! Venky On Dec 15, 2007 5:35 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another long-ago trip, but just a few photographs this time: http://toroid.org/ams/img/sundarban-2005 -- ams
Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures
At 2007-12-16 13:05:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neat. Thanks. Whenever I share photos (which is rare) I dump them into a web-visible directory, and process them with a script a la http://leitl.org/ice/ That reminds me of two changes I want to make to my own program. First, a preprocessor that generates thumbnails into a separate directory, and a small change to the renderer to display them; and a simplification of the album definition mechanism where I can give it a directory name and have to do nothing else. -- ams
Re: [silk] sundarban photographs
At 2007-12-16 17:52:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The photos are at www.flickr.com/photos/venky7 Nice. I especially like the Makaibari (non-flash) photograph, and also the fact that you've written comments for them all. Your photographs of the Darjeeling zoo reminded me of some travel agent spam I got recently, advertising holidays in Darjeeling. One of the main attractions mentioned was the Parmesan Nadia zoo. Viva la automated spelling correction. -- ams
Re: [silk] Indian Wine
i'm interested. -- Charles On Dec 16, 2007 3:46 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Haynes wrote: The Top Indian Red was Seagrams Nine Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2007. I tasted the Seagarms Nine Hills Cab Sauv and did not think it was anything to write home about. Considering my experience, I would be cautious about taking the ratings seriously. This is my opinion, YMMV. If any of you are interested in blind tastings, let me know. I know someone who holds these regularly in Bangalore. Typically, these tastings are for labels that are not yet introduced/available here. Venkat
Re: [silk] sundarban photographs
At 2007-12-16 18:43:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the main attractions mentioned was the Parmesan Nadia zoo. (For those who haven't been to Darjeeling: it's really Padmaja Naidu.) -- ams
Re: [silk] Kochi or Kabini
On Dec 16, 2007 3:50 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are planning to do a small trip, say 4 days, later this month. Trying to decide between Kochi and Kabini. Many of you seem to have traveled extensively in India. If I had to make a choice between the two, what should it be and why? Your thoughts may give me additional reasons to choose one over the other. Depends on whether you want to do sightseeing or wildlife.Kochi could also be a base for exploring more of Kerala later. If you have not been on a wildlife trip, Kabini is nice, though my opinion is that SO many resorts have come up there that it is now a)overpriced and b) overcrowded, esp during this holiday season. JLR in Kabini is a lovely resort, full of atmosphere...the other resorts are swimming-pool-badminton-court types, rather out of place in the jungle. But...it is probably fully booked up. Also important to know... Where are you based? Deepa.
Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures
On Dec 16, 2007 8:18 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2007-12-15 19:05:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it is trivial to build photo slide shows e.g. using Apple's iWeb I've always just dumped .jpeg files into an auto-indexed directory on my web server, but I recently gathered the motivation to do it better: http://toroid.org/ams/nice-photo-urls Well, if everyone is showing off their home rolled web albums, here's mine: http://www.nixcartel.org/~botsie/gallery/ Static html, generated with shell scripts. Features: * Tag based categorisation * Ajax slideshows. * Full GUI admin. * A tag cloud. ToDo: * An RSS Feed BSD-ish license, will release it within a week or two. -- b
Re: [silk] Kochi or Kabini
On Dec 16, 2007 8:33 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Kerala had this kind of temperatures all year round I'd consider moving there. We loved the backwaters. Kerala is a nice place to visit but I'd hate to actually live there. I'm probably biased though. ;-) -- b
Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures
On Dec 17, 2007 10:12 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 17, 2007 10:05 AM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Well, if everyone is showing off their home rolled web albums, here's mine: True, there seem to be more web photo albums written than any other piece of software. http://www.nixcartel.org/~botsie/gallery/ DNS fails to resolve. You have a broken DNS. Umm ... bug reports offlist please. -- b
Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: [ on 10:12 AM 12/17/2007 ] True, there seem to be more web photo albums written than any other piece of software. But they're all obviously incomplete until they can read email. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] Kochi or Kabini
On Sunday 16 Dec 2007 3:50 pm, Venkat Mangudi wrote: We are planning to do a small trip, say 4 days, later this month. Trying to decide between Kochi and Kabini. Many of you seem to have traveled extensively in India. If I had to make a choice between the two, what should it be and why? Your thoughts may give me additional reasons to choose one over the other. You get to see a lot of humans in Kochi. You get to see more animals and nature in Kabini. I would prefer Kabini for relaxation. But in order to really relax I avoid the safaris. I am scared of wild animals. shiv
Re: [silk] Confirming silk meet on 17th
Bharath Chari wrote: [ on 06:30 PM 12/11/2007 ] All, Just confirming that the 17th is on at my place. Say around 7.30pm? Headcount please? I make it Bharath Udhay Deepak Shiv Deepa Venky Savita Venkat Gautam Ramakrishna Anyone else? Please ping me and Bharath OFFLIST for phone numbers etc. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures
Biju Chacko said the following on 17/12/2007 08:35: Well, if everyone is showing off their home rolled web albums, here's mine: Do you use lightbox for the slideshow? Ram
Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures
On Dec 17, 2007 12:03 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biju Chacko said the following on 17/12/2007 08:35: Well, if everyone is showing off their home rolled web albums, here's mine: Do you use lightbox for the slideshow? Yup. lightbox2. -- b
