Friday, January 30, 2009

Madras wine scene

The city of Madras / Chennai is a traditional city compared to Bangalore, Bombay or Delhi. Its a difficult city for a Wine lover. Its such a difficult task to find good wines here, even the good Indian Wines like Grover's or Sula or Chateau Indage wines. We get only bad quality wines like Golkonda and Port wines made in India by manufacturers who themselves don't know what wine is all about. TASMAC shops all over Tamil Nadu stock only Beers and other IMFL bottles. Recently they have started distributing an imported French wine bottled in Pondicherry called The Warehouse. The quality is better than the indian made Golkonda wines but nothing else can be said about this wine too. I have given details of this wine in another Post in my blog.

I wish the TN Govt at least allows TASMAC shops to sell good Indian made wines produced in the neighbouring state of Karnataka and Maharashtra. These wines can be much better than the imported wines which are exported from the country of production as low quality wines and sold in the importing country as Premium wine. This is another case of importers trying to fool the consumer in the absence of laws regulating the quality of wine ( both imported as well as produced in India )

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