Indian Institute of Vine and Wine a hit

Updated on: Friday, September 11, 2009

Pune: The University of Adelaide, Australia, had planned setting up of Asias first wine institute at Narayangaon, about 80 km from Pune, in association with India's largest wine-making company, Indage Vintners, earlier known as Champagne Indage.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Champagne Indage and University of Adelaide in 2007.

The Indian Institute of Vine and Wine was supposed to run a three-year diploma programme (after SSC level), a four-year degree programme and two-year masters degree programme in various areas of wine-making, marketing, finance and vine growing. It would also facilitate research in the field of wine-making.

According to the MoU, the degree would be awarded by University of Adelaide and will be valid anywhere in the world. Although the MoU was signed in 2007, it got stuck for a year after that.

Shamrao Chougule, founder Chairman of Indage Group of Companies, had told Mirror in June 2008, 'The plan got stuck in between due to unavailability of land. But recently the problem got solved as government has made available about 65 acres of land in the vicinity'.

The construction work of the institute will soon begin and from the next academic year, the institute will start functioning.' He had also said at that time that the institute would start in June 2009. Then, recession hit and the plan went awry.

In spite of several attempts on phone and also through email to get in touch with Chougule, he was not available till the time of going to the press on Monday.

Indian Institute of Vine and Wine a hit

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