Founder of Grover Vineyards, Kanwal Grover was a man of vision and a pioneer in the truest sense of the word. Propelled by an abiding love for wine he founded Grover Vineyards after the age of 60 in 1988.
A frequent visitor to France because of his business of importing sophisticated equipment, Grover was exposed to the finest French wines and gastronomy and acquired a refined palate. Fired by a desire to produce wine in his own country, Grover embarked in the early 1980s on an ambitious project of growing vitis vinifera grapes in India.
His friend and guide at the time was George Vesselle, technical director of vineyards at Champagne Mumm. Their friendship developed when, on his first visit to Bouzy, Grover discovered that they were born on the same day of the same year, 1925, and Vessele opened a 1925 bottle of wine for him from his personal cellar.