July 13, 2016-Mumbai, India
The day was Wednesday. A favorable climate to travel to Nashik from Mumbai accompanied! The faculty members planned an educational trip to Sulavines, Nashik for us, the students of Eduglobe School of Learning.
We started in the morning, around 7:00am. The Route to Nashik is via National Highway3.Travelling was no concern, as we enjoyed ourselves a lot in the bus-dancing, singing and playing games. We stopped at midway for a South-Indian breakfast. Later on while travelling I got to know that NH3 consists of beautiful Ghats, lush greenery, waterfall's (during monsoon) and well built roads and took some snaps of the beauty that the route itself offers!
By 1:00pm, we reached Nashik and went to Curry Leaves for our Lunch. Curry Leaves is an amazing restaurant with nice ambience and delicious varied food they provide. It took us 1 hour out there and then we were on our way to SULA VINEYARD!
"ACRES OF GRAPE PLANTATIONS", that is what I could see there. And in the middle lied a building consisting of Tasting Room, Amphitheatre, Preparation, Storage and Purchasing Rooms. This place is known for its Wine Tourism. This is some of the information that I have noted:
The day was Wednesday. A favorable climate to travel to Nashik from Mumbai accompanied! The faculty members planned an educational trip to Sulavines, Nashik for us, the students of Eduglobe School of Learning.
We started in the morning, around 7:00am. The Route to Nashik is via National Highway3.Travelling was no concern, as we enjoyed ourselves a lot in the bus-dancing, singing and playing games. We stopped at midway for a South-Indian breakfast. Later on while travelling I got to know that NH3 consists of beautiful Ghats, lush greenery, waterfall's (during monsoon) and well built roads and took some snaps of the beauty that the route itself offers!
By 1:00pm, we reached Nashik and went to Curry Leaves for our Lunch. Curry Leaves is an amazing restaurant with nice ambience and delicious varied food they provide. It took us 1 hour out there and then we were on our way to SULA VINEYARD!
"ACRES OF GRAPE PLANTATIONS", that is what I could see there. And in the middle lied a building consisting of Tasting Room, Amphitheatre, Preparation, Storage and Purchasing Rooms. This place is known for its Wine Tourism. This is some of the information that I have noted:
1st process- Harvesting of grapes(Months: January-March).
2nd process- Crushing of grapes in a machine known as Crushing Pad.
3rd process- Fermentation followed by Blending, Stabilization and filtration of grape juice in a big tank whose storage is 10000-80000L.
4th process- Ageing: Where the juice is kept in wooden barrels for months!
5th process- Yeast is put in the bottle which eats all the sugar and Wine is Made!!!!
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| Crushing Pad |
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| Tanks For Storage |
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| Barrels |
We tasted 6 wines in the tasting room, and mind me the experience was fantastic! We were taught to taste and hold the wine glass. After every wine, we were given Crackle Biscuits in order to neutralize the taste. Wine doesn't taste good, definitely not like Cold drinks! All the wines were sour and bitter(Dhindori wine being the worst thing I have ever tasted!!) I won't reveal the names of the wines, but yes they are great for the wine lovers! Wines contain less amount of alcohol and hence are better than Whisky, rum and other alcoholic drinks. Drinking it for the 2nd time I felt they are worth trying.
We then went to the restaurant kind of place made there, for the people who want to drink wine to sit back and relax there. We then boarded the bus and reached Mumbai safely!
Indeed it was an amazing experience. A must visit place "SULAVINES". Do send me the comments regarding this Blog!
