Indian Wine and Fine dine – Four Seasons Wine Tasting At Fava

It’s been there since long in my Bucket List to visit a vineyard for wine tasting. My love for wine started a long time back when I tasted Chianti wine for the first time in Italy. Since then I have been intrigued with wine and the entire process of wine making. This reminds me of a famous saying

“Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.”

And this wish did come true in another way when I got a invite for a Food and Wine Pairing event organised by Four Season’s Wine (check out my outfit here). Well this was not a vineyard trip but definitely a wine tasting event organised at Fava restaurant, UB City, Bangalore for a small group of bloggers like me 🙂

My entire concept of drinking wine has been changed completely courtesy Amit Chavan, the wine connoisseur who hosted the event. Until that day I used to drink wine with my mouth but now first I enjoy it with my eyes, then I smell it with my nose and finally I let my taste palate have it.

To give you a brief, Four Seasons is an Indian Wine company based in Baramati, Pune. The Four Seasons Wine as the name says has wines suitable for all four seasons.

We were seated with other fellow bloggers and were given four different wines to taste while Amit told us how to savour the wine and match them with different foods. First wine which we tasted was Sauvignon Blanc(White Wine) which had light fruity aroma perfect for the summer warm days. Then came the second one Viognier which had floral aroma, little heavier than the first one. The third one we tasted which is my favorite one too, was the rose wine, Blush Rose, very light wine which I enjoyed thoroughly. The last wine was Barrique Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon a typical red wine with a strong woody flavor since it is stored in Oak barrels for several months to get the actual taste, Abhishek loved it since he is a fan of strong flavors.

I know you might be thinking wines don’t go with Indian food, well then I would say you just need to match the correct wine with correct food to break that myth.

There are two basic Wine and Food principle:
1- Complementing Principle – Choose wine and dish which are similar in taste such that neither food nor wine dominate the taste of each other. A light bodied wine for lighter dishes, medium bodied wine with fuller dish and full bodied wine with heavy dishes.

2-Contrasting Principle – Choose food and wine which are dissimilar to each other. This principle seeks to find flavors or texture in the wine that aren’t in the food but that would enhance it. For example salty food is enhanced with touch of sweetness in the wine.

This event gave me all new perspective of food and wine pairing, all thanks to Four Seasons Wine event. Not to forget the scrumptious food and the lovely fellow bloggers who made this event completely memorable.

Visit there website FOUR SEASONS WINE to know more about them and check out there Facebook page to get latest updates from them.

Finally bidding a good bye for now until then keep drinking 🙂