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Search Results for: Cornalin

Uncork now: Dôle, Cornalin

23/01/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

What to uncork, 10 January – January is a month when I’m not ready for heavy reds again -I want hearty vegetables, a bit less meat, plenty of exercise.

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Cave Ardevaz, Chandra Kurt, Cornalin, Etoiles du Valais, Gamay, January wines, Mercier Vins, Pinot Noir, Provins, Valais Dôle, wines to uncork now

Cornalin “Antica” from Cornulus, Saviése

12/04/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A winery that remains apart, focused clearly on producing elegant great wines while paying little attention to trends. Many of these age very well, including this one. Antica is the name of one of their growing areas, mainly cultivated with biodynamic methods since 2000. The Antica Cornalin is an inter-parcel blend, made from grapes taken […]

Type: Red Grapes: Cornalin Country: Switzerland Prince range: Over CHF25

Cornalin aka Rouge du Pays, pre-Phylloxera

10/04/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

This is simply the most beautiful Cornalin I have ever had and ever expect to taste, a wine for the others to aim to replicate. There was no label on the bottle. We had only a small amount in our glasses, with none left for refills at the end. It seems a little unfair to […]

Type: Red Grapes: Cornalin Country: Switzerland Prince range: Not commercially available

The bark of wine

17/01/2020 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Uncork now: Humagne Rouge, Maurice Zufferey 2012 It was early evening as I walked across crusty January snow to the trunk of the old apple tree. Dents appeared on the white surface, small shadowed pits of snow gleaming in the late afternoon light. At 120 years the tree’s branches reach high into the sky but […]

Filed Under: Uncork now, Wineries Tagged With: Cave Maurice Zufferey, Donna Leon, Friends in High Places, Humagne Rouge, Irish handmade glass, Keith Leadbetter glass, wine glasses

Swiss wine 2009 vintage report

06/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

10 years on, how well are these wines doing? The Mémoire des Vins Suisses has become so well known as a collection of some of the finest wine producers in Switzerland that it’s easy to forget the original idea behind the group was to create a bank of diverse Swiss wines with aging potential and […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: aged Chasselas, aged wines, Agriloro, Azienda Mondò, Clos Marta, Cornalin, Denis & Catherine Mercier, Liesch, Madeleine Mercier, Memoire & Friends, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Merlot, Möhr-Niggli, oaked Pinot Noir, Pinot Noir, Roberto e Andrea Ferrari, Swiss Wine Vintage Award 2019, Swiss wine vintages, Switzerland vintage 2009, Syrah, Tenuta San Giorgio, Zwaa Osterfingen Oberhallau

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