The best time to visit is between November and March, though wine enthusiasts may want to plan their jaunt to coincide with Sula Vineyard's wine stomping. Regardless of the season, Sula Vineyards offers wine tasting in The Tasting Room, where guests can sample a variety of wines while looking out...

While Mumbai hosts its annual wine tasting festival in November, the scene shifts to Pune in December, and January sees Delhi Food and Wine Festival kick-off. Traditionally, Indians have been known to be reluctant to part with their preferred poisons – whisky, rum and vodka. However, a growing local...

Nikhil Agarwal, 32, was working in a telecom company when a friend received a call to join Sula Vineyards. “She wasn’t interested but I literally grabbed the phone from her and asked for the job. Agarwal persuaded his employers to send him on training courses to gain a formal education in wine. “Real...

An increasing number of Indians are sipping on wine. Or maybe the same lot of us are just guzzling more of it. Either way, wine sales have risen 217 percent in 2010 over sales in 2009 according to Myles Mayall, wine advisor to The Wine Society of India. Sula Vineyards, for instance, sold 2.6 lakh cases...

There is a demand for oenologists , who are responsible for the complete task of winemaking. They oversee all the tasks required year-round to plant and maintain healthy vines. Also in demand are vineyard managers who supervise grape plantation and maturation right from planting, irrigation, pruning...

Indian wine to Indian grape brandy? Wine producers of Maharashtra have asked the government to allow production of brandy, grape spirit and cognac from stocked wines , which have no takers. If approved, you may soon enjoy an alcoholic drink made of grapes. 8 litres of wine are needed to make a litre...

Producers in India’s wine capital of Nashik in Maharashtra, long used to targeting the classes, are looking at ways to take the drink to the masses. Boxed between plateauing demand in cities and surplus grape harvests, winemakers are now aiming at less-privileged tipplers with low-priced, quart-sized...

Sula continues to experiment with new varietals, engage in sustainable agriculture, support the local rural economy, and, of course, make wines of outstanding quality and superb value. Sula Vineyards launch Mosaic Wines Sula Vineyards launch a new wine varietal called Mosaic for the Indian market. These...

Sula Wines plans to: Add acreages under contract farming Increase capacity at its facilities Introduce mid-priced range to attract wine lovers. Currently, Sula sells about 2.75 lakh cases annually. The Indian wine market stands at 1.2 million cases (one case has 12 bottles of 750 ml each). Sula’s brands...

Recession took care of corporate snobbery Rajeev Samant has a reason to smile: Out of every ten wines moving in five-star hotels, five are Indian - recession took care of corporate snobbery. The normally ebullient entrepreneur says India's wine market, which had been growing year on year, dropped...