Purple pager Visooth Lovitnavy, president of the newly formed Thai Wine Association, alerts us to possible good news for wine drinkers and producers in India. According to this Express India story, the ambitious head of the Nationalist Congress party Sharad Pawar, who is also Agriculture Minister, called on Saturday for a relaxation of taxation and distribution on Indian wine, demanding it be given the status of a soft drink.
“Wine differs from liquor,” he pointed out to what was presumably a receptive audience at the 46th annual conference of India’s Grape Growers Association. “There is a need to change...