A recent coffee tasting with Sunalini Menon, one of the world?s leading coffee proponents, is one of the most affable…
I love the word spa, and then, I hate it. It evokes reactions and sensations so mixed. It can mean…
I studied in France and as a result my approach to cooking has always been rather French.
Among all the reasons that are often cited for the appallingly slow rise of the popularity of wine in India…
Years after the only true French restaurant shut its doors to the Indian public, the locals thought they had won.
The problem with wine is not our perception of it but our communication of what we perceive. Let?s say I…
I admit defeat if someone asks me what is the best wine. I am even further flummoxed when someone, whom…
They say the future belongs to those who will have it. I have seen the hands that will herald in…
There is a bad side to being a wine taster. You don?t get to travel much to places, which aren?t…
I am not the kind to compare wine to other spirits. But the spirited point I am trying to make…
It can be hard to explain to others that the seemingly effortless task of waking up early to start sipping…
The one thing about wine that has been discreetly responsible for further obfuscating them are their labels. As if wine…
The issue with wines is that they have been around for so long that it becomes almost too hard to…
Wine is an acquired taste. The more one tastes, the more one acquires. Unlike wine snobbery, where the more one…
Wine to me is always about a story, an evoked emotion. Anything else, and it is a lesser wine. If…
I am writing this from one of Europe?s biggest gastronomic conferences, and what I am eating is of no importance…
It is good to have an initial goal, it tells you just how badly you missed when you struck. And…
Wine drinking anytime, anywhere is as such fun, but wine hunting today in India is a nuisance. If anything, I…
