Month July 2011

Four Seasons

Location: Chennai Date & Time: Thursday, September 3, 2009 – 15:02 Terroir – Madras Wine Club organised its fourth event since its inauguration in Jan 2009 with a tasting of UB’s Four Seasons range of wines held at the fashionable…

An Evening with Steven Spurrier in Chennai

Location: Chennai Date & Time: Thursday, April 8, 2010 – 19:30 Right: Steven Spurrier with the Terroir Chronicle 2009 Talk about shattering preconceptions about wine. “Steven Spurrier’s take on the current wine scenario is that the French are drinking less…

Dinner in the French Quarter

Location: Satsanga Restaurant — Puducherry Date & Time: Saturday, August 28, 2010 – 19:00 An evening with Pierre Elouard the owner of Satsanga with a selection of Bordeaux wines and maybe a little education.

The Screening of Bottle Shock

The Screening of Bottle Shock Location: Chennai Date & Time: Friday, July 24, 2009 – 15:01 Bottle Shock Night The third “official” event organized by the Chennai Wine Club, Terroir, was a well-balanced brew of great ingredients: a thoroughly enjoyable…

A glittering launch

Terroir kicks off with a grand party at the Taj Coromandel Terroir, the Madras Wine Club, was launched in great style at the Taj Coromandel on January 22, 2009. The event was attended by the club’s members as well as…

Sangiovese for Indian summers

Recently on a warm and muggy May evening in Chennai, I opened a bottle of Chianti Classico DOCG Riserva 2004 frm Acino D’oro. It was delightfully agreeable. Everytime you needed to swirl the liquid in the glass to get a…

A wonderful diverse world of wines

A wonderful diverse world of wines The opportunity to taste wines form different parts of the world of wine is too much to resist for any Oenophile, especially in India where the choices available are normally very limited even in…