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They were right: small yields, great old wines

14/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A remarkable tasting session Monday 12 November, of older wines from Valais, made by a group of small independent vignerons-encaveurs, members of the Charte de qualité St Théodule. The oldest wine was 1964, just two years before a handful of pioneers, intent on making quality wine, created the charter. They were firm in the belief […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave Caloz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave le Bosset, Cornalin, Denis Mercier, Denis Saverot, Ermitage, Humagne Blanc, Humagne Rouge, Marie-Bernard Gillioz, Païen, Petite Arvine, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Roduit, Simon Male & Fils, Syrah, Weinschmiede Salgesch

Ice wine is kin, but not twin, to late harvest wines

05/12/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Wine-searcher has just published a helpful “Complete Guide to Ice Wine“. I’m often asked if Switzerland’s justly famous sweet late harvest wines are ice wines, because people from elsewhere assume that with snowy Alpine peaks this is a cold country and the grapes freeze on the vines. The term “vin de glacier” adds confusion to […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: glacier wine, Grains Nobles ConfidenCiel, ice wine, Jancis Robinson, late harvest, sweet, Tamlyn Currin, vin du glacier

Best Swiss wines 2016 named

26/10/2016 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

BERN, SWITZERLAND – The winners of the annual Swiss wine awards for 2016 were named Wednesday evening 26 October in Bern as part of the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse gala evening that attracts some 400 people from the Swiss wine world. (photos tomorrow, Thursday, of some of the winners) Part of the press release […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bern, GPVS, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse 2016, Swiss national wine awards, Vinea, Vinum magazine

Int’l competitions: Winning Pinot wines named

02/09/2016 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Austrian cellar named ““Gran Maestro du Pinot Noir” Two Valais wines win Grand Or top awards SIERRE, SWITZERLAND – Austrian winery Weingut Schlosshalbturn from Halbturn was named the winner of the prestigious “Gran Maestro du Pinot Noir” at the Mondial des Pinots wine competition in Sierre Friday 2 September. Two wineries from canton Valais in […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: awards, Mondial des Pinots, Pinot Noir, prizes 2016, Sierre, Vinea

Vaud honoured for stellar wines

29/10/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

BERN, SWITZERLAND – In a remarkable show, winning a number of top awards for Swiss wines, canton Vaud’s producers put their wines in the limelight Thursday evening. The honour of being named Swiss Winery of the Year went to the Domaine de la Ville de Morges, which has been harvesting a string of prizes in […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: awards, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, prizes, Swiss national wine competition, Vinea, Vinum magazine

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