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Archives for April 2018

Discovery channel: Moldovan wines

28/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Until this week, I’d never had a Moldovan wine. Here’s my primer and wine tasting notes, after a Wednesday evening visit to the 13 stands of the guest of honour, Wine of Moldova, at the Arvinis wine fair in Montreux (April 25-30). The country, the wine regions The country is the Republic of Moldova (1991), previously the […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Asconi winery, economy, Feteasca Alba, Feteasca Neagra, Feteasca Regala, Furmint, GDP, Gitana winery, grapes, Moldavia, Moldova, Rara Neagra, Timbrus Purcari Estate, Vinaria din Vale, wine, Wine of Moldova

2017 white wines at Arvinis

26/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

People have been telling me that 2017 was a very good year for most Swiss wines and last night I rushed around (not ideal, but …leave yourself more time than I did) tasting some of them at Arvinis in Montreux. They were consistently good, complex and fresh and very promising. Keep in mind that most […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: 2017, Arvinis, Chateau Maison Blanche Grand Cru Yvorne Chablais, Jean Daniel Suardet, Montreux, Savagnin Blanc, Swiss, white

Arvinis addendum: Cave Rodaline’s trio

26/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Arvinis in Montreux, Wednesday evening: I visited Cave Rodaline’s stand to do a comparative tasting of their three terroir Petite Arvine wines, which I’ve wanted to do since my Combe d’Enfer hike in March among their vines, above Fully in Valais. This is a great way to understand how a producer can make different Petite Arvines […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Arvinis 2018, Claudine and Yves Roduit, Fully, La Murgère, Les Claives, Leytron, Montreux, Perronne, Petite Arvine, Rodeline

The many shades of Arvine: a tribute

23/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Today has been a day for celebrating in Fully, canton Valais, the day when Spring and Petite Arvine are declared to be partners, and people turn their attention to this wonderful grape, one of Europe’s finest. Wineries invite special guests – last year saw several winemakers from Burgundy – the wine flows to keep up […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Cave du Rhodan, Féchy, Gerard Besse, grapefruit, Gros Arvine, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Martigny, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Mounier, Petite Arvine, Provins, rhubarb, Rouvinez, salty finish, Sierre, Simone Maye et fils, Zufferey

Rare grapes, do we love their wines?

20/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

What do rare wines from old and new grapes taste like, and should we love them? See also: The strange world of rare grapes Discovery wines Serge Heymoz of Cave les Sentes sums up my feeling for many of the old varieties I’ve tasted, when he speaks of Rèze, a wine that has been around […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Audacieux, Benoît Dorsaz, Cave les Sentes, Chambleau, Completer, Divico, Ephémère, Galotta, Grosse Arvine, La Petite Grange, Lafnetscha, Memoire des Vins Suisses, rare wines, Räuschling, red wines Marie-Thérèse Chappaz, Rèze, Serge Heymoz

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