Raise a glass to Nashik

AT Nashik International Airport, there are so many posters advertising vineyards and wine tastings, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve landed in California’s wine country rather than India’s west, 160km north of Mumbai.

Yet, in the past two decades, Indian wine production has, in fact, become a thing, and Nashik is its epicentre. The greater wine industry is taking notice: Sula Vineyards, India’s leading winemaker, won the gold medal for cabernet sauvignon from the Global Wine Masters last May, the highest honour an Indian bottling has received at that annual competition.