Zooming in on lessons

The Daily Dose Red 2016 from Wine Park is a 100 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon that uses organic grapes from a single vineyard in Solapur, Maharashtra

With lockdown in India being in place till at least 3 May, the only feasible way to reach out to wine-minded people is through remote tools: phone, email, video-conferencing and the like.

Here’s where Zoom, the new app for video-conferencing, web-conferencing and webinars, has taken the world by storm: its usage “zoomed” in March, giving a new twist to the term “going viral”. So much so that there’s a big pushback, with stories of privacy and security issues that put users at risk to hackers and pirates. Despite that, Zoom has emerged as the conferencing app of choice for many,