Heritage Winery & Janapada Loka 13th Sep 2015

Posted by Poornima Belawaadi

Heritage winery is located off Bangalore - Mysore highway, near Channapattana 60 K M from Bangalore The Winery is in a zero sound and zero dust pollution zone. Located amidst rolling hills and lush greenery, spread over 25 acres spanning 8 acres of vineyards, 9 acres of winery 8 acres restaurant and landscape.HERITAGE adheres to international standards of winemaking with the help of their experienced wine makers. Our winemakers with their skill and knowledge uphold the” tradition and legacy” of producing fine wines. HERITAGE produces 6 varieties of wines Viz., Cabernet red wine, Shiraz red wine, Chenin Blanc white wine, Twist bubbly wine, Heritage 2000 premium wine, Heritage sweet red wine.Heritage has captured 75% of the wine market in Bangalore, 65% in other districts of Karnataka.Wine tasting was something that was in my mind since a very long time & now it was the time to actually try wine.I reached Kengeri Railway station at 7.30 and took a Mysore train at 8.25 AM.

Reached Ramnagar at 9.45 AM.It was a very hot day.After enquiring with the locals, we got to know that there was no stop near Heritage wineary from any of the local or KSRTC buses.So, we took an auto to Heitage winery.There is a small deviaion before Kadamba hotel towards left for 3 kms,which takes us to the wine factory.There were n number of boards along the way which made us easy to identify the route.The founder of the Winery welcomed us .We had to pay an entry fee of Rs 400/- per head and then headed towards the wine making process and wineyard.

It was very informative one hour session.After the session, we got to taste 5 different kinds of wines .I felt a bit dizzy ! Eulopa resturant attached to the winery was very attractive and the menu tempted us to taste potato nuggets.

It was super hot and tasty.I purchased a small bottle of Red Wine too !After few photo shoots, we had to take the same auto to chennapatna bus stand since there were no transportation from heritage winery.It was almost 12 PM.

JANAPADA LOKA

We found that autos were quite reasonable to visit Janapada loka from Channapatna.So we took an auto and reached Janapada Loka by 12.45 PM. Janapada Loka or "Folk world" or "Folk-culture World" is a folk museum that has an exclusive display of the village folk arts of Karnataka. It is under the aegis of the Karnataka Janapada Parishat Loka Mahal, a wing in the museum has a display of 5,000 folk artifacts. It is situated in Ramanagara district in the Indian state of Karnataka, on the Bangalore-Mysore highway, 53 kilometres (33 mi) to the south of Bangalore.

H. L. Nage Gowda, an Indian civil servant and folklorist thought of creating a museum to exhibit the varied folk art and culture of Karnataka. Accordingly Karnataka Janapada Parishat (Janapada Academy) was first established on 21 March 1979. Gowda and his friends continued collecting antiques for this institution for the next three decades. The current museum land in Bangalore-Mysore highway was bough on 12 March 1994.

Janapada Loka is divided into separate wings — Folk arts museum, Loka Mahal, Chitra Kuteera, Doddamane, Shilamala, Arghyamala etc. The museum has a collection of 5,000 folk artefacts. The Janapada Loka campus consists of a decorated gate, a short road with display of mannequins of folk artists, symbols of traditional tribal worship, Lokamatha Mandira, Loka Mahal, Chitra Kuteera, Janapada Library, Shilamala, Ayagaramala, puppet theater, open air theater and Loka Sarovara or lake.More details can be found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janapada_Loka .

After seeing all the wings, we were hungry and quickly rushed towards Kamat hotel which is just next to Janapada loka to taste the yummy Karavali hotel.Then we again came back to Janapada Loka since there were some dance classes and veeragaase dance shows.We had a great time laughting at the dancers of all age trying to learn the folk steps..It was 4 PM.We took an auto and reached Ramnagar Bus stand.From there we had a small walk along the market to Ramnagar Railway station.The train to Bangalore was at 5.30 PM.We reached home safely by 7 PM after a fantastic and funny day out !