The fourth edition of the Mumbai Wine Festival promises to be the biggest and wackiest installment of the series yet. Wackiness with a bit of savoir-vivre of course. This is wine we are talking about, not some crass country liquor.

Now spit into the bowl! The rather fractious tradition of spitting wine before drinking has apparently not caught on quite well in this festival. And the reason is put across most eloquently by, Pratap Arora the event director of this prestigious festival, “Why spit it when you can drink it?”