A Women Only Off-Licence

There are good (alcoholic) spirits and bad ones, as there are those who can drink sensibly... and all the rest. Good alcohol, administered in just the right dose to induce good spirits, has never killed anyone; quite the contrary....

Grape varieties imported from France, Indian wine-growers trained in California, the Indian market clearly growing, ex-pat French wine specialists... In a time when climate change is transforming the world order for wine production, will India become the new Eldorado...

Being in the military, as we know, brings with it certain advantages: among others, having a case of Ricard at a very competitive price used to be one of the “perks” of the armed forces of the world’s largest...

This ancestral “firewater”, made from cashew apples, had fallen out of favour, as it was considered “too strong” and perhaps a tad “has-been”; young Indians in the Goa region preferred more “modern” spirits. A local initiative producing the famous “feni”...