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Is there a magic number for drinking intelligently?

14/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

You’ve surely seen the big headlines this week, that alcohol is a lot “worse for you than you thought” (Mother Jones) and that “regular excess drinking can take years off your life” (BBC) and an “extra glass of wine a day ‘will shorten your life by 30 minutes’” (The Guardian). The research in question becomes […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: abuse, ACSH, alcohol, Alex Berezow, consumption, how to calculate alcohol in a glass of wine, limits, The Lancet, wine and happiness

Weisshorn in the spotlight

28/02/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Swiss mountain grapes are not grown on top of peaks that are 4,000 metres high, but 3,000 or more metres lower, where they are still part of the intricate and interconnected marvel that nature has given us in the form of Alpine mountains. Their soil, their weather, the amount of sunshine and ultimately the aromas […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature Tagged With: sunset, Val d'Anniviers, Weisshorn Hotel

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

Vineglorious! book’s living Index

If you would like a printed copy of the index for your book, please contact me at ellen@ellenwine.com. You can also download and print the two-page Vineglorious index, PDF, identical to the one below, but without the links. Index: Vineglorious! Switzerlnd’s Wondrous World of Wines Note that grape variety descriptions appear in the margins throughout […]

Discovering a bit of Valais vineyard paradise

31/05/2014 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

Valais, as the largest Swiss wine region, spread out over a large area, has three days for its winery open days – the other regions generally have two days. A new idea this year from the Musée du Vin et de la Vigne (MVV) in Sierre-Salgesch/Salquenen was to offer an inexpensive (CHF15) and relatively easy […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Martigny Sierre, mazot, Musée du vin et de la vigne, MVV, Plan-Cerisier, Salgesch

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