April 2007 - Posts

• Introducing Basic Wine Course

  www.indianwine.com presents online wine course. No need to attend classes, right from your computer. Easy to learn and get certified quickly on your convenient time. Impress your friends and customers with your wine skills. We are offering right now “Basic Wine Course”. We have several wine courses around the world, but this basic course covers the Indian region and food culture along with International wine region. It makes this course broad and unique in the world. Basic Wine Course: Basic wine course offers the basic knowledge about • Internals of grapes. • How wines are produced? • Different wine types. • Characteristics of different wine varieties. • Wine producing regions in India and Europe. • Describes the Indian foods including South, North, East and Western regions. • How to match the Wine with Food? Including Indian and Western foods. • How to taste and store the wine? • Questions and projects. Course Benefits: The Basic Wine Course for beginner individuals, who has no or little knowledge about wine, Hoteliers and individuals, wants to treat their friends and relatives with right kind wine and dine. This course will give them good knowledge before going to the wine store or wine event. It helps everyone to differentiate the good and bad wine. It is interesting course for Hoteliers to know what kind of wine matches with food. For wine importers and wineries who wants to sell wine to Indians or India restaurants around the globe, this course helps them to understand the Indian food culture to recommend the right kind of wine to them. Course Duration: Estimated time: 8 Hours (Reading 5 hours + Practical 3 hours ) Course Duration: We expect students will complete the course with in a week. Maximum time allowed is one month from the registration. Why from www.indianwine.com? We are the first online wine portal. We have record of bringing the Indian winery industry to the world with power of internet portal. We have experience in meeting several wine makers, wine influencers and wine enthusiastic. We are chasing and understanding the Indian wine market scenario everyday. We have released the current requirement and we can offer better wine courses then anyone that suites the community. How to get certified? After registering the course, we will send the confirmation email along with online access for course materials. It will have 11 chapters Text materials and Set of Questions and Projects. Students have to read the materials and answer the questions, complete the project and send it us in an email. We will evaluate the answers, on satisfied completion the course; we will send you a certification on Mail to the student address.     Testimonials: I have successfully completed the Basic Wine Course by www.indianwine.com. The course materials and answer sheet is attached for your review. Overall, I found the course found very useful and give me confidence to talk and serve wine to our customers in our restaurant. This course helped me to understand the difference between the various wines, names, serving guidelines, temperature maintenance, tasting techniques. I appreciate your helping our company to move forward by introducing this course to us. Sincerely, Eswar Swagath Group Inc Owner and Operators of Manpasand Indian Restaurant Chicago USA.   Posted Apr 27 2007, 11:11 AM by venki with 5 comment(s) Filed under: basic wine course

• Why is Maharashtra harvesting Wine Grapes earlier than Bangalore Region? - Explained

  There are several reasons for that all linked with the ‘terroir’. ‘Terroir’ is a simple French word to describe climate, soil and human actions/factors on the vine growing. Climate The climate in Maharashtra is more continental than Bangalore, means that temperature gets very warm in summer (April, May), up to 40-45 deg. On the contrary, Bangalore temperature is much more constant over the year, around 25-30 and up to 35 deg during summer. Heat unit is what we could call the quantity of energy from the sun per day that the plant gets. There are consequently more heat units in Maharashtra, thus ripeness comes faster, few days less than in Bangalore. Rain is also coming earlier in Maharashtra, first rains come in April. That could spoil the crop by development of rot on grapes and dilute the concentration of sugar and others components in the berries. Soil The soil in Maharashtra is dark, compared to Bangalore soil which is brown-red. Dark color gets warmer from sun light and induces senescence of roots in surface and could affect the end of maturation in extreme instances. That is also one of the reasons why temperature is higher in Maharashtra. Human intervention Knowing the previous points, we can adapt the production to those climate and soil by pruning one month earlier, in order to escape from the big summer heat and the earliest rains. On the other in Bangalore, we keep the harvest period in April, to get the optimum maturation of the grapes according to our own microclimate. One more important point for this time difference is that unlike Maharashtra, Karnataka apart from a South-West monsoon (which gets over by 15th Sept.), also gets the North-East Monsoon, which is from 1st Oct - 15th Nov.  In fact, in our earlier history, we never pruned before 15th Nov & then sometimes harvest went upto end May.  As we improved our viticulture practices, we started pruning on 1st Nov to bring the harvest forward. We are adjusting the maturation period of our grapes to the optimal period of sun, thus the development of required flavors and sugar is easier and homogeneity of crop is insured. Thibaut Verdenal - Grover Wine Maker Posted Apr 06 2007, 07:25 AM by venki with 1 comment(s) Filed under: climate, wine making