Rajeev Samant, the owner of Sula Wines , organized a wine tasting of over 40 wines from 11 wineries. This was the first time that Indian wines were rated by Steven Spurrier, who is an authority on wines worldwide.

He used a 20 point scale. We reproduce for you the tasting notes as provided by Steven along with his scores. A guide to the scores:
10 = bad; 11 = poor; 12 = mediocre; 13 = acceptable;
14 = fair; 15 = good; 16 = good+; 17 = very good;
18 = very good+; 19 = excellent; 20 = superb.

The Indian wine market – as opposed to the Indian wines that I had come across from time to time – first got my attention two years ago, when I was attending the Skalli & Rein Wine Experience conference in Paris. Speakers presented the opportunities of various emerging wine markets, and while the advice to exporters to China was that the traffic lights there were still on amber, the advice from Rajeev Samant, founder of Sula Vineyards, was that for India they were definitely on green.