India known for its rich and varied heritage has been seen also for the growth of its wine-producing industries. The people of India have taken more interests in wines than ever before. This love of wine by the people of the country has made India produce wine in most of its regions and now it has led to a new concept called as ?wine tourism? in India.
What is ?wine tourism?? Wine tourism is nothing but taking people around the established vineyards and wineries and letting them know about the process and practices involved in making of different kinds of wines they are interested in. The people are allowed to taste the wines themselves and can even buy these wines and take home a few bottles which please their senses. Evening stroll around the vineyards and a great meal in the vineyard restaurant served with a wine of their selection is something that almost all of the tourists enjoy.
Nasik located in Maharashtra, India, is the leading producer of and has the finest wineries and vineyards in the surroundings. Every tourist visiting India for the wine tours make it a point to visit this place without fail. Nasik is often compared to Napa Valley of the US because of the production of the finest wines.
Sula Wines and Tiger Hills Vineyards are two of the famous and prosperous wine making industries in India and have set up resorts and wine tasting programs and even offer to people who have no knowledge about wines.
Wine Tasting and Wine Education are not the same as just Drinking Wine. The first two have a lot more different meaning than the last term. Drinking Wine is just drinking the wine in a goblet and enjoying it. But wine tasting is the art of appreciating and commenting on a given variety of wine. Wine tasters can tell everything about the wine by just taking a sip out of it.
Wine education is fast spreading in the country lately. Famous vineyards and wineries in India have set up wine education facilities in their resorts. People above the drinking age can join this course and know more about the wine that they drink. There are even certain institutions set up to spread wine education. WSET (Wines & Spirits Educational Trust) is one such institution which is set up in Mumbai by the KBR School of Wines. It is a 2-day 6-hours course which covers the entire prescribed curriculum of the WSET organization.
Every town has a bazaar, and big cities such as Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai have many bazaars that seem to merge into each other. Bazaars are like a world apart, with specialist areas set aside for particular goods (shoes, saris, jewellery etc).
For the traveller, bazaars are more about looking than shopping. Here you'll see acres of unbelievable plastic kitsch alongside fine silks and cottons as well as mountains of cooking implements. In many towns Tibetans have set up their temporary bazaars of woollen clothing. These are especially popular around the hill stations. In all the tourist centres, Kashmiri vendors sell nearly identical wares of carpets, sandalwood elephants and lurid batik and tie-dyed cloth. Much of it is mass-produced and tacky, but if you persist they often have better stuff stored away. Pilgrimage towns have shops selling religious artifacts to Indian tourists, including beads, statues, ash paste and mindblowing bright posters. The food stalls present an olfactory as well as a visual delight.
Government emporiums can be found in major cities and usually stock a large range of local crafts. Prices are fixed and are a little higher than you would pay in the bazaar, but for novices who don't know the going rates for crafts or who are inexperienced in judging quality, the emporiums are a reasonably safe bet.
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Metalwork Bidriware is a craft named after the town of Bidri in northern Karnataka where silver is inlaid into gunmetal. Hookah pipes, lamp bases and jewellery boxes are made in this manner. Bidri employs the technique of sand-casting. Skilled artisans make a mould from sand, resin and oil and then pour in the molten metal.
Small bronze figures of various Indian Gods are available in Tamil Nadu, especially in and around major temple towns. The bronze makers still employ the centuries' old lost-wax method of casting, a legacy of the Chola period when bronze sculpture reached its peak in skill and beauty.
A wax figure is made, a mould is formed around it and the wax is melted and poured out. The molten metal is poured in and when it's solidified the mould is broken open. Figures of Shiva as Lord of the Dance, Nataraja, are among the most popular. Small copper bowls, cigarette boxes and paan containers are still handmade in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Bell metal lamps are a good buy in Thrissur (Kerala).
Jewellery South India's most important jewellery-making centres are Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mysore, Ooty and Thanjavur. Hyderabad is a major centre for pearls. Cuttack in Orissa is a centre for delicate silver filigree jewellery andornaments. Tirunelveli in southern Tamil Nadu is a centre for many types of jewellery, particularly large chunky pieces. South Indian jewellery is generally distinguished from that made in the north by its use of motifs inspired by nature -lotus buds, flowers, grass stalks and in Kerala. birds.
Woodwork Mysore (Karnataka) is South India's main centre of sandalwood carving, and while sandalwood was once reserved for carving likenesses of Gods, nowadays all manner of things are made, from solid pieces of furniture to keyrings and ornate fans. Rosewood is used for making furniture and carving animals. Carved elephants are a speciality of Kerala.
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