Comments on: Wine Retail in India

By: himanshu

himanshu — Sat, 21 May 2011 08:00:18 +0000

hey magan, i wants to start a new business of wine store… only imported wines will be available… can u help me in providing the maximum knowledge about this project…
thank u

himanshu

By: payal jain

payal jain — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:23:31 +0000

i like it

By: Magan

Magan — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:08:48 +0000

mail us mail@wi-not.biz

By: Nitin.R.Kulkarni

Nitin.R.Kulkarni — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:12:48 +0000

I want to start wine industry .Help me? ple

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:53:59 +0000

I truly enjoyed reading this blog. A perfect insight into the sorry state of the wine industry in India. To add insult to injury the local liquor shops or “Thekas” are called wine shops.

I enjoy the “intellectual high” that wine gives in addition to being a health drink. Don’t wanna elaborate on kinds of high that other spirits give, but I would drink red wine everyday, if I could afford it. I only wish that quality wines were available in India at a reasonable cost.

Of course we will never match the wine culture of Europe, but I sincerely hope for things to improve here in the next 5-10 years.

All the best to you Magan. Keep up the good work. Cheers…

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:09:25 +0000

Surprisingly there is Wine Association in India and wine has been termed as a drink with health benefits. It is but a joke with reference to India. Everything works sporadically here. So controlled by lobbyist and the government. In terms of prices, the good wines are too expensive for mid level people disabling us from stacking a wine cellar. Some of so called affordable Indian wines taste like vinegar. Ramadoss created a hullabulla over spurrious alcohol, drinking age, blah blah and then went silent for a complete year! Things work really strangely.

Coming back to the point, Magandeep, you are completely right, Alcohol joints should not be termed as Wine shops. It is but demeaning the heavenly drop of joy.

By: Rajneesh Puri

Rajneesh Puri — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:43:45 +0000

As long as we have babus, who first make the hurried and shortsighted policies to gain favor with one lobby and then come up with even more myopic(or was it hypermetropic?) amendments to please the other lobby , are at helm, the future of good wines in India is very sour.. Someone needs to explain to these ignorant babus that customers are not fools nor are they made of money.. when they bring in the imported wine with all sorts of discounts and then suddenly increase taxes, once it reaches the shelves, They are killing the proverbial golden egg laying hen… this “good idea” out prices any decent wine that we may have bought regularly.. Instead, we are now forced to experiment with some cheaper (read pocket friendly) wines.. Obviously the quality is directly proportional to the price of the wine and some might say that the price of the wine would go up exponentially if the shop-owner was to properly store and sell the correct wine at correct temperature.. but this is not essentially true..It does not take too much to buy a wine cooler, but the lack of will to do the right thing is tremendous.. “sahnu Kee??” (what’s it to me?) is the famous punjabi expression that covers our psych as a nation..why should wine shop owners be different..?? It might be helpful if the wine companies took active part in extending knowledge to the shop owners about storage and sale of correct wine..provided they are willing to learn!!

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:06:18 +0000

I have lived (survived) in India without drinking any wine for 6 months – amazing for French people, especially if you love good wines. The reason for this is exactly what you say in your article : How can you only think about buying any good wine in these “shops” ? If ever there was a (reputated) good wine available there, it simply can’t stay good for long, first of all. Second, you would pay a medium quality wine a horrendous price, which makes it taste sour.
By the way, don’t you think that not only tax policy should change, but also people’s mentality ? Wine is not just alcohol for making you drunk – which seems to be the main purpose of drinking any alcohol in India in the eyes of many people. I didn’t even dare going to these shops, and it’s my third reason for staying without drinking wine in India…