The Happy High is a Bartending Institute, Wine School, Beverage Consulting & News co founded by Ajit Balgi in 2014. We work with hotels on staff training and bar menu development , liquor companies for trade and consumer advocacy, Country wine and spirit boards on building awareness about a liquor category or brand, and with importers on wine selection and wine tasting with the trade and consumers. Below is a look at our core services
Online Courses for professionals| Bartending Academy | Wine course | Corporate Workshops
Online Courses for professionals| Bartending Academy | Wine course | Corporate Workshops
Ajit Balgi - Sommelier- Bartender-Educator
- WSET Educator - First educator in India to facilitate a public level 2 wine course
- First India based wine educator to be a BNIC accredited Cognac Educator
- International Wine Judge
Ajit is one of India’s leading wine and spirit education and experiences co. He is a seasoned mixolgist and Sommelier and has worked in Mumbai and London for over a decade in wine and spirits. Ajit is advanced qualified in wines and spirits from WSET (London) and has trained over 5000 professionals and consumers in the last 10 years.
Ajit was the only Indian to be at ESPAI Priorat 2017 in Spain, was selected to be a part of the Austrian Wine Summit in 2015 and also bagged the US Cochran scholarship in wines and spirits in 2016. He was the only Indian judge at the Michelangelo wine and spirit competition in South Africa in 2018.
Ajit has also written for publications like Times of India, Business Traveller India, Sommelier India,, Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle ,Living Foodz, Food Lovers, Business World Hotelier etc. He is an alumnus of IHM Mumbai and an MBA in marketing from S P Jain, Mumbai. See his complete profile here
- WSET Educator - First educator in India to facilitate a public level 2 wine course
- First India based wine educator to be a BNIC accredited Cognac Educator
- International Wine Judge
Ajit is one of India’s leading wine and spirit education and experiences co. He is a seasoned mixolgist and Sommelier and has worked in Mumbai and London for over a decade in wine and spirits. Ajit is advanced qualified in wines and spirits from WSET (London) and has trained over 5000 professionals and consumers in the last 10 years.
Ajit was the only Indian to be at ESPAI Priorat 2017 in Spain, was selected to be a part of the Austrian Wine Summit in 2015 and also bagged the US Cochran scholarship in wines and spirits in 2016. He was the only Indian judge at the Michelangelo wine and spirit competition in South Africa in 2018.
Ajit has also written for publications like Times of India, Business Traveller India, Sommelier India,, Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle ,Living Foodz, Food Lovers, Business World Hotelier etc. He is an alumnus of IHM Mumbai and an MBA in marketing from S P Jain, Mumbai. See his complete profile here