India's biggest vineyard music festival, the Sula Fest, is held in which state?

The Sula Fest (SulaFest) is a music, wine and food festival held every year at the Sula Vineyards in Nashik, Maharashtra. It is known as India's biggest vineyard music festival and is usually held in February, after the grape harvest.

The festival was started in 2008 by Sula Vineyards, one of India's largest wine producers, which was founded by Rajeev Samant in 1999 in Nashik. The festival is held in an open-air amphitheatre surrounded by vineyards. It features performances by Indian and international musicians of many genres, such as rock, electronic, jazz, reggae, Indian folk and Bollywood. Visitors can also enjoy wine tasting, grape stomping, gourmet food, a flea market and other activities. The festival has helped to promote wine tourism in India.

Nashik is known as the "Wine Capital of India" because it is the largest grape-growing and wine-producing region in the country, with many vineyards and wineries. The climate and soil of the region, on the Deccan plateau, are suitable for growing grapes. Maharashtra is the largest producer of grapes in India. Nashik is also an important religious city on the banks of the Godavari river and is one of the four places where the Kumbh Mela is held, together with Prayagraj, Haridwar and Ujjain. The Kumbh at Nashik is held at Trimbakeshwar, near the source of the Godavari.

Other famous music festivals in India include the NH7 Weekender (held in Pune and other cities), the Ziro Festival of Music (Arunachal Pradesh), the Hornbill International Rock Contest (Nagaland), the Sunburn Festival (Goa and other places) and the Rajasthan International Folk Festival at Jodhpur.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Karnataka has vineyards near Bengaluru, but the Sula Fest is held in Nashik.
• ✗Goa is known for festivals such as Sunburn and the Goa Carnival.
• ✗Himachal Pradesh is known for the Kullu Dussehra.