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Article: Indian wine making waves in U.S.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 23, 2003
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Byline: Carolyn Jung
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The newest wine to uncork a buzz among oenophiles doesn't hail from California, France, Italy, Australia or New Zealand.
It is from, of all places, India.
In the land of the sun, where summers are marked by monsoons and 107-degree heat, a Stanford University graduate and former finance manager with no winemaking or agricultural experience is doing something unheard of. In the red and black soils of a country not known for winemaking or wine drinking, he is growing grapes _ not in the summer like almost every other winemaker in the world, but in the winter _ to produce exceptional wines.
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