The Chikoo Story - Around 1890 AD Sir Dinshaw Petit during his excursion to South American rainforests brought an exotic fruit sapling "Sapota" to the shores of Bombay. Due to lack of space in his home garden in Nana Chowk, the sampling was entrusted to his dear friend Ardeshir Irani who lived in the coastal town of Gholvad about 150km from the city. The fruit survived a host of challenges in thi
s alien land. The Chikoo was grafted onto the local Rhyne tree by Merwan Khodadad, a local farmer after a storm uprooted most of the plantation. The local trees strong tap root helped it become more resilient. Utmost care by it's growers while some borrowing it's rootstock from the native Rhyne tree, it got a new name "Chikoo" which now grew favourably in this terroir. In return this humble fruit brought prosperity to it's new home. Fine Chikoos became an identity of Dahanu-Gholvad and the surrounding region. The makers of this wine are farmers who are immensely passionate about their fruit and believe in it's potential for developing into a fine wine varietal. Its the first ever wine made from pure chikoo extracts, offering an outburst of tropical flavours on your palate.
