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METRO
FEATURE
Work
Up the Wine
Young,
golden, ample and if harvested at the end of the  stipulated
15-day period, dry. Wine, as Franck Thomas, Best European Sommelier 2000,
will tell you, is the nectar of the gods. Which explains why, "When
you sell wine, you sell a little dream" (at a large price), and before
drinking wine you must smell its cork "with love". At a Sommelier
(soh-mell-yay) Training Seminar held at Delhi's Maurya Sheraton on January
13, Thomas glugged champagne, ferretted through maps and filled sheets
with information on viticultural practices and vinification methods before
collapsing with a jet-lagged groan for lunch.
The audience-a
chef, young waiters and a clutch of interested others-looked drowsy even
before the drinks. During the afternoon, cell phones sang, students looked
studiously into their brimming flutes as Thomas asked for volunteers and,
a waiter presented him with a plate of toast after thrice being asked
for a bottle of champagne.
Thomas (politely?)
described Indian wine as "interesting" and (reassuringly!) acknowledged
that tippling was not a desi tradition. Despite the gap in his knowledge,
here's a good tip. "Always chill white wine at 12 degrees celsius."
And snarf it down with dignity.
-Sonia Faleiro
Women
in Black
Toyota
Qualis' first anniversary at Delhi's Le Meridien
had a fashion show by Bangalore-based designer Deepika Govind and host
of well-known faces parading all-black womenswear. The collection became
somewhat predictable as many designs looked like cornerstore familiars.
But in the array of super-short minis, bustiers, long dresses and trouser-suits,
the pageantry did have its moments:
Noyonika Chatterjee in a spartan glitter-edged silk sari and cutwork blouse
(above right), Helen Brodie in a sarong (above, left) and Fleur Xavier
in a flowing lehnga-style skirt ensemble with stole.
-Shuchi
Sinha
Play
On
Girish
Karnad will be proud. His first play, Yayati in Kannada which Karnad wrote
as a 23-year-old student in England in 1961, was one of the 40 Kannada
plays chosen by theatre group Nandana for a 100-hour non-stop provincial
drama that ended last week at the ADA Rangamandira in Bangalore. "It
was meant to be a lot of fun," says Nandana director Dev Nagesh who
got 20 artists for the almost four days of ceaseless theatrics. Yayati,
which drew maximum applause from the audience, is influenced by existentialist
drama and explores the complexities within a joint family structure.
-Stephen David.
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