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Sion’s classy new wine tourism centre

02/12/2017 by Ellen Wallace 4 Comments

The Celliers de Sion will make skiers as well as flatlanders happy this winter, with a new wine tourism centre that has just opened, 1 December. Winter visitors to the area can now opt for an easy introduction to two of the region’s largest wineries, learning something in the process about central Valais wines. The […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Bonvin winery, Celliers de Sion, David Héritier, Gérard-Philippe Mabillard, Lavaux Vinorama, Michel Etter, Oenoparc, Pascal Bonvin, Rouvinez, Rouvinez winery, Sion, Valais, Varone, Varone winery, wine tourism

Jancis Robinson, Vineglorious book review

28/12/2016 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

(Update, 29 December: many thanks to Jancis Robinson for permission to republish in its entirety a new review of my Swiss wine book ). A series of reviews by JR staffer Tamlyn Currin includes a review of Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines, published 27 December. Currin ran a series of year-end book reviews in 2015 and they were so popular […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: Gamay, Jancis Robinson, Labor of Love, Lavaux, Piedmont wines, Plant Robert, Rèze, Suzanne Hoffman, Tamlyn Currin, Vineglorious! book reviews

Vineglorious! book’s living Index

If you would like a printed copy of the index for your book, please contact me at ellen@ellenwine.com. You can also download and print the two-page Vineglorious index, PDF, identical to the one below, but without the links. Index: Vineglorious! Switzerlnd’s Wondrous World of Wines Note that grape variety descriptions appear in the margins throughout […]

Watering vines in Switzerland

19/07/2014 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Wine writer Yves Beck, who posts frequently on Facebook, set me straight there on what seems to be an urban myth about the Swiss countryside. I’ve been told by many people that Valais is the only canton that authorizes watering for vines. I mentioned it recently because Salgesch (called Salquenen in French), near Sierre, sits […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: dry areas, Maurice Peyre, Salgesch, Salquenen, watering vines

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