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BIDEN SERVED A NAPA RED WITH INDIAN HERITAGE TO VISITNG INDIAN PM MODI
By Susan Lewis
28-6-2023
Source: Patel Winery
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden served a red wine by Patel Winery in Napa Valley to the visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the state dinner held in the White House.
The menu consists of items such as marinated millet, grilled corn kernel salad, compressed watermelon and tangy avocado sauce.
Patel Winery was started by Gujarat-born Raj Patel, a former wealth management executive, whose family has settled in the USA since 1972.
The Washington Post said the red wine “pays a particular homage to the ties between the host and the guest”.
rior to the dinner, the guests walked across the South Lawns of the White House
and take their seat at a pavilion draped in “rich greens” and “saffron coloured” flowers
at every table.
They then enjoyed the performances by Grammy award winning violinist and conductor Joshua Bell and Penn Masala, a South Asian acapella group from the University of Pennsylvania.
Raj Patel had previously told California Golf News & Travel Magazine that he was fascinated by the idea of custom crushing, that is buying grapes from established growers and then making their own wine at someone else’s winery.
He did just that and started custom crushing in 2007, the first batch of a hundred cases of the first vintage Cabernet Sauvignon by Patel Wines was given a rating of 95 by Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate.
Each bottle of Patel Wines is handcrafted - right from the hand-sorting of clusters, to
de-stemming and hand-sorting of grapes.
In 2015, production of Patel Wines topped 1,000 cases, and Patel was quoted as saying: “We’d rather continue to focus on what our objective has always been, to make great wine”.
Patel Wines produces no more than a few hundred cases a year since it was founded in 2007.
(the writer can be contacted at: info@thewinechronicle.com)
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