My Life My Style: Rajeev Samant

Favourite fashion designer:
Wendell Rodricks (for the Goa bum in me)

Favourite spirit:
Hendricks Gin

Favourite champagne:
Piper-Heidsieck

Favourite wine:
Rasa Shiraz

Choice of cuisine:
Japanese

What food items do you like to shop for and why?
Cheese, cured meats and foie gras on my visits to Europe

Newspapers, TV channels and websites that you prefer: ·
FT.com, The New York Times online, BBC.com, Facebook, Business Standard

Your sleeping ritual:
Sleep on my left side, earplug in the right ear

Favourite TV show:
Mad Men

Books on your bedside:
Homer’s Odyssey, Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red

Massage or workout to de-stress:
Massage at home once a week, gym or run at the racecourse every day, yoga once a week.

Your IT tools: ·
Blackberry, MacBook

Where do you like to sit when being driven?
In the front passenger seat so I can control the music

On a plane do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
Catch up on my Economist reading, sleeping on longer flights

Fancy coffee or masala tea?
Lavazza espresso at office, filter coffee at home

Can you cook?
No, but I have daily interactions with my chef

Are you a beach or mountain person?
I love them both but I spend 10 times as much time on the beach since Goa is a 50-minute flight away!

What’s your cologne?
Chanel Allure Homme Edition Blanche

You get your suits from:
Bespoke from Kachins

What’s your shaving mantra?
Head or face on alternate days

Who’s your favourite shoe-maker?
Barkers

Your bathing preferences: Shower, tub or bucket?
Shower. Tubs should be banned in Mumbai

What are your weekday and weekend breakfasts like?
Freshly-squeezed seasonal juice, filter coffee, toasted brown bread with our own organic free-range eggs and cheddar, salami and tomatoes

Your current set of wheels?
Honda CRV for the highway, Chevy Beat for the city

In the car is it sleep or cell for you?
Unfortunately cell all the way

God for you is…
An excellent concept

Favourite café:
Pali Village Café Bandra

Favourite restaurant:
Trishna

Workday lunch is:
Dabba of organic veggies, normally asparagus, from my Nashik kitchen garden

What’s your workout regime?
Lifting weights, yoga, a 5-kilometre run, tennis, beach pong

Your ideal holiday:
Ibiza for the opening parties

At parties do you like to talk turkey or PC?
Flirt or dance

A few of your Goddesses are:
Kali Maa!

Alpha males you know:
Diwan Rahul Nanda – the original!

Your favourite motto:
First things first, second things never

 

Rajeev Samant, CEO, Sula Vineyards