Free flowing beers-on-tap has now become commonplace at gastro pubs across Mumbai. But what Roopanshi Bhatt, co-owner of the Tea Villa café chain, found missing was something for wine lovers like her. Back in 2016, in an attempt to fill this vacuum, Bhatt and her tea house partner, Micky Panjwani, thought of launching a wine restaurant that would run along the lines of beer pubs in the city.

Two years on, the duo is just three weeks away from launching the country's first-ever wine-on-tap restaurant, Wine Villa. "In our travels across the globe, we realised the heart-breaking fact that consuming wine in India is highly underrated, a concept which is considered normal abroad. It's a common misconception here that wine is a drink of the affluent and we are here to challenge that," says Bhatt.