Wine sales have risen 217 percent in 2010 over sales in 2009
An increasing number of Indians are sipping on wine. Or maybe the same lot of us are just guzzling more of it. Either way, wine sales have risen 217 percent in 2010 over sales in 2009 according to Myles Mayall, wine advisor to The Wine Society of India. (In previous years, growth in sales has been about 25 percent a year, with 2008-09 seeing a dip, thanks to the R-Word.)
(This story appears in the 28 January, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)