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Search Results for: Ermitage

Gemma Hermitage

28/09/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

One of the wines matured inside the Rhone glacier by the Adrian Mathier winery. This Gemma line of four late harvest wines, all of them allowed to mature slowly at low temperatures, is one of the beauties of the Valais collection of wines. Made in new oak barrels, no malolactic fermentation, will age well for […]

Type: White Grapes: Marsanne (Ermitage) Country: Switzerland Prince range: Over CHF25

Swiss Ermitage aka Marsanne, circa 2014

21/02/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I tripped over a wine book chapter written in 1987 this morning, from a book called “Search for Good Wine” by John Hailman. What a great way to see how very much Swiss wines have changed in the past 25-plus years, but more than that, to see how much wine writing has […]

Filed Under: Wineries

Sunday art & Spanish brunch at l’Hermitage

07/07/2013 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

From 21 July to 13 October enjoy a guided tour of Miro’s exhibit followed by a Spanish brunch that includes tortilla española, miel, quesos and Spanish dried meats.

Filed Under: Food & dining

CHF109,250 for 6 Hermitage bottles in Geneva

14/05/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Christie‘s had a good week, as did Sotheby’s, in Geneva, with sales of fine jewels netting the two nearly CHF100 million in sales. The diamond sales makes the price of a fine bottle of wine dim a bit, but nevertheless, the CHF109,250 ($98,951) paid at Christie’s wine auction at the Four Season’s Hotel des Bergues […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: auction, Christie's, Four Seasons Hotel des Bergue, French wine, Geneva, Hermitage, Hermitage La Chapelle, Rhone, Syrah, vintage 1961

Book review: Gault&Millau Suisse/Schweiz 2020

31/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The new GaultMillau guide can be purchased in bookstores and online for CHF34.90 in French, CHF52 in German. The two language versions differ: the German one contains all 830 restaurants and lists of hotels, wineries, popular dining spots and the guide’s stars of the year. The French version has all of this but “only” 395 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Anne-Catherine and Denis Mercier, Basel restaurants, Davide Ghidossi, Edmond Gasser, Gault Millau Swiss guide, Gault&Millau Schweiz 2020, Gault&Millau Suisse 2020, GaultMillau, GaultMillau Chef of the Year 2020, GaultMillau Sommelier of the Year 2020, Manuel Tresch, Patrick Adank, Raymond and Violaine Paccot, Sandrine Caloz, Solange Lucie and Tristan Perey, Sonja Grandits, Stucki restaurant, Susi Steiger-Wehrli

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