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Search Results for: Beudon

How one man changed the wine profile of Valais

05/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Wine education Switzerland hosts a number of educational classes, often with tastings, from schools and museums and various wine groups. They are a great way to learn more about the landscape of Swiss wines – the culture, history, heritage, geography and more. The 1001 lives of Dr Wuilloud Henry Wuilloud was the subject of an […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc, Completer, Diolinoir, Henry Wuilloud, history of Swiss wine, José Vouillamoz, Josef-Marie Chanton, Merlot, Müller-Thurgau, Musée du Vin du Valais, Pinot Blanc, Swiss grape varieties, Syrah, the landscape of Swiss wine, Valais Wine Museum

Commenting on Washington Post article on Swiss wines

18/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

The Washington Post carries an article about Swiss wine, which is nicely written and some good wines are listed, plus it draws the attention of a wider audience to Swiss wines, all to the good. It also has all the usual clichés (chocolate, cheese, tiny number exported, etc.) that you get when a writer helicopters […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Beudon, chocolate, cliches, Concours de Bruxelles, Fêtes des Vignerons, Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson, learn about Swiss wines, Marion and Jacques Granges, Pinot Noir, Swiss wine article, Swiss wine landscape, the landscape of Swiss wine, Washington Post

Between Earth and Sky

14/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Valentina Andrei and Nicolas Wüst with one of the first in a budding and beautiful collection of wines, Ivresse: think of the elegant sense of the word in French, a state of euphoria.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: biodynamic wines, Carlo Crisci, Christine Crisci, Combe de Noutse Fully, Etienne Krähenbühl, François Gautier, Gamay, GaultMillau, indigenous yeast, Ivresse, Jean-Claude Favre, Jérôme Aké-Béda, Le Beudon, Le Cerf restaurant, Magnificients, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Marion and Jacques Granges, Martigny, Merlot, Nicolas Wüst, Petite Arvine, Pierre Zufferey, Plan-Cerisier, Saillon, Valentina Andrei

Could biodynamic be the future of Swiss wine?

20/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Nicolas Joly pitches biodynamic to the Swiss Nicolas Joly is a superstar in the increasingly accepted world of biodynamic winemaking, although he would probably cringe at that label. But a presentation Monday night in Valais, at the Tsampéhro cellar in Flanthey, made it was easy to see why he’s not just another farmer touting natural […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Coulée de Serrant, Demeter Switzerland, Denis Mercier, Domaine de Beudon, Flanthey, Fully, Georgia wines, Madeleine Mercier, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Nicolas Joly, price biodynamic wines, Renaissance des Appellations, Swiss Association for Biodynamic Farming, Tsampéhro

Wine language: amphores, eggs, biodynamic (update)

16/10/2014 by Ellen Wallace 8 Comments

Demeter and Swiss biodynamic vines Update: just after I posted this, Jacques Perrin’s latest blog post arrived, about the course I followed last week. It’s in French, but for anyone who reads French, it’s a good review of some of the current thinking about the use of cement eggs, amphores, etc. Correction: Writer Wink Lorch […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: amphores, biodynamic, concrete eggs, José Vouillamoz, organic, Pierre Thomas, Robert McIntosh, Vineglorious! book reviews

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