Published On : Sat, Jan 4th, 2020

7th Wine festival opens with a bang

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This year annual wine festival has a new venue in South West Nagpur

7th Wine festival opens with a bang at Bhagwati lawns in Trimurti Nagar.

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Deepak Bhatnagar, Director Commercial of Sula wines was Chief guest. Among other special guests was Priyanka Save Promoter of Fruzzante, who has brought many fruit based ” sparkling Alcoholic beverages ” to the wine festival for the first time!

Her Mango, Pineapple and Strawberry ‘ wines’ were a big hit today .

” Plan to make Orange wine in Nagpur soon” promises Priyanka.

This Mechanical Engineer, by vocation, had a fulfilling career in New York in USA. Yet she returned to India 7 years ago, to be with her ailing father Shrikant Save who owns a resort called Mill Zill in a small town called Bordi in Konkan. This area is full of chickoo orchards.

Why not do something with this fruit? Thought Priyanka. With a lot of trial and error she succeeded in making an aromatic, flavorful and stable alcoholic beverage with it. She then experimented with other fruits like mango, pineapple, strawberries and oranges.

” Getting licenses was a struggle till I met Minister Eknath Khadse”.

You keep saying ‘ help the farmer’ but here I have a product that will use local produce but I cannot make it!

Khadse was shaken by this statement. He promised Priyanka and her husband Pai that the requisite permits will be given in 7 days, and they were!!

Among Sula wines, a new wine called Kadu became a hit too . KADU means a forest in Kannada. Or ‘ the wild’. Sula is committed to Save the Tiger project with part of the profits from this wine .

There were many food stalls to choose from at the festival. Seafood restaurant ‘ MACHLEE ‘ is serving delicious fish fare along with other stalls selling Punjabi food and rolls etc.

A special attraction at the festival was the presence of Vartika Parihar Patil who has just won the Fabulous Mrs World title in China.

A good outing for Sunday.

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