Drink and be merry
As usual, a wide choice of wines. Jacob’s Creek from Australia brings to India two of its prized wines — the Semillion Chardonnay and the Shiraz Cabernet. These wines promise to be the ideal wine for the Indian wine lover, due to its simplicity, richness of flavour and fresh taste. Cheers!

Next, we have IVY – (five of them) from Chateau Indage. These wines are a combination of the New World method with intense fruit driven flavours, bursting with tropical fruits and abundant sunshine.

Fruit Basket
A delicious fruit spread, which is 100 per cent pure and natural and is a blend of lemon, grapefruit, mandarin and orange. Mouth-watering? Oh yes! Try St Dalfour Citrus Fruit Conserves and see for yourself!

Cook up some great munchies, this Diwali!
Is your kitchen equipped for the upcoming festive season? Apart from other things, you might need loads of vanaspati, too. Ruchi No 1 Vanspati is a fairly new entrant in the market. Made from vegetable oil, it is totally untouched by human hands, from the raw material stage to the refining and packaging phase.

The Steam engine
If you are in Jaipur, you must not miss the ‘pub on wheels’, Steam. Rambagh Palace, offers guests a thrilling evening at this 38-seater open-air platform, which has two 16 seater narrow gauge coaches. To complete the ‘station-platform’ experience, it has an authentic gong to sign off closing time and the chimney puffs up cosmetic smoke, too! All this, coupled with snacks and cocktails provides an astonishing evening.

Chocolate time
Some good news for Mumbai-ites, especially chocolate lovers with BPL mobiles. You might think that’s a strange requisite. Not really, because, with Cadbury’s chocolate vending machines in select places in the metro, you can pick the chocolates of your choice, through simple steps on SMS. And pay later through your mobile bill!

Perfect balance
Here is an oil that offers the right balance of three kinds of fat — MUFA, PUFA and SFA and therefore, is considered healthy and well balanced! Nature Fresh Actilite oil is a refined blended oil, containing sunflower and soya bean, thus providing both lightness and nutrition.

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