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Archives for July 2014

Study: wine labels influence our judgement

28/07/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Wine labels influence our decisions about buying wines, but they also affect how we assess wines we taste, a new Swiss study shows. Seeing the label may have up to a 60 percent impact on our evaluation of a wine we taste, Pascale Deneulin, senorial analysis professor at the Changins Agroscope federal […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Anne Müller, blind tasting, consumers, Domaine Burignon, labels, Noémie Graff, Satyr, Swiss wine

Guess the title of new Swiss wines book

28/07/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

This is a really tough one, but I’m sure you can do it! Here are the printer’s proofs. My book on Swiss wines, the first one in English in nearly 20 years, will be out in mid-August. The official launch is 6 September at the Vinea wine fair in Sierre. Put it on your calendar […]

Filed Under: News, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: books, Swiss wine in English, Switzerland, wines

100 extra trains for Zurich’s Street Parade

28/07/2014 by Ellen Wallace

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Zurich mean party-time next weekend, with the national First of August celebrations followed the day after by the city’s hugely popular Street Parade, a giant dance and techno fête. The CFF/SBB rail company is adding 100 trains 2 August to carry the crowds. Extra trains will leave for Zurich during the afternoon […]

Filed Under: Travels

Open letter to a fool on a motorbike

28/07/2014 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you cover police news regularly, as I do, it’s impossible not to notice the number of motorcycle accidents. A 25-year-old man was sent to hospital in Geneva in critical condition Saturday shortly after 18:00 when he lost control of his bike on the rue de Chêne-Bougeries, touched the corner of a […]

Filed Under: Travels

Visperterminen wine wins Decanter int’l award

22/07/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Excited for St Jodern Kellerei for winning an impressive top international award in the recent DWWA (Decanter World Wine Awards) competition, for its 2012 “Heida Barrique” wine. You’ll find more about this winery in my upcoming Swiss wine book, a very special cellar! Its “Heida Veritas” and a red blend, both 2012, won bronze. “Heida […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Decanter World Wine Awards 2014, Grand-Maître Cabernet Franc, Mitis, St Jodern Kellerei, Swiss wineries, Visperterminen

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