[iwanttogoback]

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Yeah Bucky..............whatever happened to Lanlic and LD

these being the tipples of your youth?  

how did I miss this thread?

i'm wondering, how much would you expect to pay in your country for a good, drinkable bottle of wine? )and if we could convert that into rupee, our common currency, for understanding that would be good.)

here, I would expect that a bottle costing around $10AUD (approx 320 rupee) should be good, and that even bottles costing a few dollars less are still going to be ok.

oh, and that's red.

[jyotirmoy]

Expect to pay around Rs.550/- for a drinkable wine. The quality & variety of Indian wines are moving north... the industry saw more than 30% growth.

[torryquine]

jyotirmoy, on Nov 14 2006, 07:37 AM, said:

The quality & variety of Indian wines are moving north...

I couldn't agree more - that Satori is a fabulous tipple.  India has everything a country needs to turn out world beating wines and is well on the way to doing so.

CH, you seem rather well (and affectionately) aquainted with Buckfast and it's ilk.....

Thanks for the tip-off Malkers.

For a decent bottle of wine in the UK, expect to pay at least a fiver (Rs480 ish).  Really you're looking at £6/7 (Rs500-600) for something properly quaffable.  Overall, we found that what we paid in India got us something generally a little better that we'd have for the equivalent price at home.

[cyberhippie]

No no I was just thinking the Alchies have gone upmarket!! Lannie and LD used to be the gut rot of choice.

By the way the best bottle I've had for Ages was Australian Railroad Red MMmmm

[gautam]

Malcolm,

I was puzzled about your praise of Sula and Grover wines, because of the varietals Cab Sauv and others, and the Indian climate where they are grown just do not add up until someone mentioned that these folk import from South America and BLEND as well, under their. AHA, then the shoe dropped, of course, Chile, cold climate.

So indeed these people could be selling a vast array of blended wines, but how much [%] is imported from S. America and also from the groaning [superb] cellars of EU to be blended with Indian varietals needs to be investigated.