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Article: Wine tasting becoming a lucrative career for Indian youth
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- January 26, 2006
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New Delhi, Jan. 26 -- As the custom of drinking wine gains popularity in India, an increasing number of Indian youth are finding that wine tasting is becoming a lucrative career in the country.
As wine making is still at its nascent stage, there is a lack of qualified and experienced wine tasters in India. Indian wine makers therefore have been left with no other choice but to hire tasters from abroad, for this very unconventional job that involves a combination of art and science with a thorough knowledge of wines and its flavours.
However, with recent studies indicating that India s wine market is growing fast, at around 30 percent a year and that in 10 years the industry will grow to an ...