Whatever is your choice, just enjoy drinking wine!!! A professional journalist, well know artist, most successful businessmen, prominent banker and heaps of people asked me in many occasions, what is Dry Wine? What does Dry Wine taste like? How Sweet Wine is made? Since, so many people curiously keep on asking these questions, I felt the need for information and knowledge about Sweet... 

Last month, one of the regular customers of Royal Liquor Store at Pulchowk entered the store and asked the store attendants, “Do you have a ‘Merlot’ wine? Immediately, the store owner pulled out more than hundred bottles of wine; only fond blend of ‘Merlot plus Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz plus Merlot and Merlot plus Petit Verdot but couldn’t find single grape varietal ‘Merlot’ wine.... 

Ultimate pairing of Wine with Women, Romance and Sex by Arjun Bhandari The CEO of Taittinger, Mr. Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger in press briefing once said, “Champagne’s stiffest competition comes not from other kind of sparkling wines (Prosecco, Cava or English sparkling wine) but from Viagra (sexually inducing medicine)”. His statement shows that drinking wine makes a person sexually... 

The wine glass that influences the overall impression of wine by Arjun Bhandari This issue I’m going to highlight quite different aspect if wine. It is not about wine, but the accessory that influence the total impression of wine. That is ‘wine glasses or ‘stemware’. Thinking back to my first wine tasting practical class during my study period in Australia, I was flabbergasted to... 

Wine history, culture and politics It is mentioned in the Thucydides, Greek Historian book that “The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine.” Throughout the history it is also been said that alcohol was the primary agent for the development of western civilizations. In several cultures and societies, evidence have uncovered... 

French Paradox (Drinking a glass of red wine daily reduces risk of cardiac disease) Due to high consumption of fatty foods, Nepalese people these days have started getting affected by deadly heart related disease which takes our life within few minutes. Heart related deaths are leading cause of death in developed nations because of eating high quantity of saturated fats (4, 60,000 people in US... 

How to Taste Your Wine Does the price paid represent correct value? In this issue, we would like to highlight most fundamental topic of wine- wine tasting. Wine tasting is not the same as drinking it. Wine tasting is equal to evaluating a bottle of wine, whether it represents the true value for money if we are going to pay for it. So, as we go, we will learn to practice techniques of trade -wine...