On a trip to Nasik, I went to a place that at least I hadn't heard of till date. Around 30 Kms from Nasik is the Sula Vineries. Apart from producing premium wines (red and white) the vineyard is in a very picturesque setting. The owners have added a novelty to these settings by introducing a 'Tour & taste' programme. Visitors pay Rs 150 each for a tour in which the guide takes you through the process of wine making from the grape orchards to the crushing, storage and the bottling of the wines.Most of their wines are fresh apart from the 'Dindori' variety which is stored and matured for a year in Oak barrels and bottled with cork stoppers. This gives this particular wine a 'wood' and dry flavour. Then they have you taste all the six varieties (30 Ml in case you thought they were to have us taste the whole bottle!) in the proper way- in wine glasses, held up by their stems, sniffing the wine for its aroma, taking a sip, swirling it around to get the flavour right and then downing it! There is also a resteranti (sic) where we ordered a whole bottle (in fact -two) and enjoyed wine like Indians - drink till you feel tipsy! Anyway, it was a unique experience. The restaurant is on a balcony overlooking the wineyards and the distant dam on the Godavari which supplies drinking water to Nasik.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
In an Indian Vineyard
On a trip to Nasik, I went to a place that at least I hadn't heard of till date. Around 30 Kms from Nasik is the Sula Vineries. Apart from producing premium wines (red and white) the vineyard is in a very picturesque setting. The owners have added a novelty to these settings by introducing a 'Tour & taste' programme. Visitors pay Rs 150 each for a tour in which the guide takes you through the process of wine making from the grape orchards to the crushing, storage and the bottling of the wines.Most of their wines are fresh apart from the 'Dindori' variety which is stored and matured for a year in Oak barrels and bottled with cork stoppers. This gives this particular wine a 'wood' and dry flavour. Then they have you taste all the six varieties (30 Ml in case you thought they were to have us taste the whole bottle!) in the proper way- in wine glasses, held up by their stems, sniffing the wine for its aroma, taking a sip, swirling it around to get the flavour right and then downing it! There is also a resteranti (sic) where we ordered a whole bottle (in fact -two) and enjoyed wine like Indians - drink till you feel tipsy! Anyway, it was a unique experience. The restaurant is on a balcony overlooking the wineyards and the distant dam on the Godavari which supplies drinking water to Nasik.
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2 comments:
It is ghom phir k bhopla chowk!!! have u thought of any thing else except drinks!! anyhow it was nice n educative.
dear it high time to keep the glass down and start writing some thing new. this exercise of lifting an empty glass for nearly 2 weeks is not going to strength ur deltroid!!!
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