BBC News:
Rohit Singh speaks in an accent that’s markedly different from his mother’s.
He’s a second-generation Indian immigrant living in Mornington Peninsula, a beachy cape that’s about an hour’s drive from Melbourne.
Over the past two years, he has been helping his parents run Avani, a boutique winery they founded after migrating to Australia in the 1990s.
Mr Singh says that in the past decade, the South Asian community in Melbourne has burgeoned, so Avani has started hosting wine pairing events that spotlight Indian dishes – meen pollichathu (a baked fish recipe from southern India) is served with Pinot Gris; dal makhani (a slow-cooked, creamy black lentil dish) is paired with a Pinot Noir.
The chefs and restaurateurs behind these experiments are among more than 710,000 Indians who live in Australia, one of the world’s biggest “immigrant nations”. Their numbers have been increasing rapidly over the past few years – according to the country’s last census, Indians are now the second-largest migrant group in Australia, having overtaken the Chinese and second only to the English. The new wave of Indian immigrants has largely been driven by the tech sector, as the country has a high demand for skilled workers.
