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Search Results for: Changins

Winelovers: Changins course in English

08/12/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Correction – 2 dates in 2010, even better! This is excellent news: the Changins Wine School (Ecole du vin de Changins), the best place around for learning to understand and appreciate wine, is offering its wine-tasting course in English for the first time. The school has just mailed out its 2010 course schedule and “Introduction […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2010 schedule, Changins Wine School, classes, courses, Introduction to wine tasting, Nyon, Switzerland, wine school, wine-tasting

Book reviews: gardens, wines

29/05/2019 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Bergli, an English language publisher in Basel, has two new books out that are relevant here: Gardens Switzerland and The Landscape of Swiss Wine. The first, about large public and private gardens, is a gem. The wine book has good points but is significantly flawed.[…]

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Basel, Decanter, Fête des Vignerons 2019, Francois Murisier, GaultMillau, guides to Swiss wine in English, Hester MacDonald, José Vouillamoz, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Stephan Reinhardt, Sue Style, Swiss cheese books, Swiss food writer, Swiss Gardens, Swiss Wine Promotion, Swiss wine terroir, the landscape of Swiss wine, The Landscape of Swiss Wine book, Vinea

Uncork now, 5 April 2019

05/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

I tasted two reds at Divinum that I would encourage you to try, both of them top end wines, priced accordingly. The first is a classic example of what you can get from Pinot Noir if your grapes are in the right place and you know what you’re doing. The second displays the potential of Humagne Rouge.

Filed Under: Uncork now, Wineries Tagged With: Appenzell, Cornalin, Cornulus, Humagne Blanche, Humagne Rouge, Pinot Noir, Schmid Wetli winery, Swiss wine landscape, the landscape of Swiss wine, Valais

Barolo’s wild little sidekick

22/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The GD Vajra winery was one of the first in Barolo to be interested in organic, in 1972. Today they produce elegant wines from Nebbiolo – and one startling wild one from Freisa grapes.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Barolo, Freisa, G.D. Vajra, Italian wine, Nebbiolo, organic, vintages

A hard road to Chamoson

15/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Jamie McCulloch picks up a few rays of the wintry sun outside the post office of Chamoson, waiting for his visitor. His face has the look of Scotland for me and I immediately recall men outside pubs in the west of Scotland, facing the setting sun and reflecting on the world. McCulloch is, however, a […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Black Magic wine, Cave Les Deux Cîmes, Chamoson, Jamie McCulloch, Petite Arvine, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Scottish winemaker, Swiss wine landscape, Swiss wines, the landscape of Swiss wine, Valais wines, White Magic wine

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