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Monday 30 June 2008

India's Domestic Wine Industry Booms

A decade-old domestic wine industry in India is expanding rapidly as Indians acquire a taste for wine. But as Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, high import duties continue to remain a barrier for foreign wine producers in the Indian market.

When corporate executives threw parties ten years ago, they only stocked whiskey, vodka and beer. But as a growing economy and increasing affluence changes tastes, middle and upper class Indians make sure they have wine to offer when friends come over.

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A taste for fine wines

A WINE that can be bought off the bottleshop shelf for $17 was the star of the Cairns Show Wine Awards.

The 2005 Gramps Shiraz was awarded Champion Wine of the annual awards yesterday, with a host of other wines awarded gold, silver and bronze medals.

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