RAIN STORMS BRING WINDFALL GRAPE SUPPLY TO INDIAN WINEMAKER
March 8th, 2015
A MAJOR Indian wine manufacturer received a windfall supply of cheap grapes when it bought 3,000 tonnes of storm-damaged table grapes at USD0.25 per kg - half their normal price. Earlier in March, unseasonal rains and hail storm damaged 40,500 hectares of table grape plantations in Maharashtra, whose capital is Mumbai. Wine maker Sula Vineyards, of Nashik, Maharashtra, plans to use the grapes to make cheaper table wines such as Sula Port 1000 and Sula Port 1000 Gold, which are popular in southern India, said Mr Neeraj Agarwal, executive vice president – ...
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