Devansh Patel convinced three friends to take what they were calling the trip of a lifetime by promising that if they attended at least five matches of the ICC World Cup 2023, he would drive them to every vineyard in Nashik and Akluj for the following two weeks.

Patel, a software engineer by profession, is the only cricket fan in the group. To such an extent that the 29-year-old takes pride in the fact that he has never missed a single over or even a ball of the matches that involve his favourite teams, namely India and Australia. However, grape stomping or vineyard tours come above everything else for his friends, Dhruvan, Akaash, and Sanjay, as the trio decided to break their cricket embargo for just this one occasion. ‘For the love of wine’, Dhruvan insisted.