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Search Results for: Integrated production

Discovering and debating: Divico, Divona

18/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The conference in Bramois offered an exciting moment because it’s the first time so many Divico disease-resistant wines have been tasted together, organized by single grape wines, blends, oaked, not oaked.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Agroscope, Appellation d'origine contrôlée, Blaise Duboux, Bramois, Cave de Genéve, Cave de la Côte, Chambleau, Changins, disease-resistant grapes, Divico, Divona, France, Marie-Bernard Gillioz, Paradou, PIWI

Could biodynamic be the future of Swiss wine?

20/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Nicolas Joly pitches biodynamic to the Swiss Nicolas Joly is a superstar in the increasingly accepted world of biodynamic winemaking, although he would probably cringe at that label. But a presentation Monday night in Valais, at the Tsampéhro cellar in Flanthey, made it was easy to see why he’s not just another farmer touting natural […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Coulée de Serrant, Demeter Switzerland, Denis Mercier, Domaine de Beudon, Flanthey, Fully, Georgia wines, Madeleine Mercier, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Nicolas Joly, price biodynamic wines, Renaissance des Appellations, Swiss Association for Biodynamic Farming, Tsampéhro

Organic wines: the high road to mainstream

15/07/2018 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Wine drinkers who are hunting for organic wines, slow down! These wines aren’t created overnight, but we have taken such a fancy to the idea of them in Europe, in such a short time, that the winemaking business barely has a chance to keep up. More organic wines, quality up, prices higher The number of […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: biodynamic, Changins, Concour Vin Bio Suisse, Domaine Beau-Soleil, Domaine de Chambleau, herbicides, Mont-sur-Rolle, Nyon, organic wines, research, student project, sustainability, Vaud, Vinatura

Ruminations on recent wine news

20/05/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Sunday wine news perusings and musings for you. An article in Forbes about Swiss wine that will please the country’s wine promotion body, an interesting article about natural wine in The Guardian that is too focused on France, a provocative story in Le Temps about Bern’s efforts to centralize agricultural (including wine) research, a promising […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Agroscope, biodynamic, Changins, Forbes, Fribourg move, Harvard, Has wine gone bad, longevity, natural wines, organic, Roche et vin, Why Swiss wines continue to impress, wine and health, wine promotion

The strange world of rare grapes

20/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 4 Comments

Why would you drink wine from grapes you’ve never heard of unless you’re on your honeymoon or an exotic vacation? Just when you thought you were starting to understand wine because you could rattle off the names of a few grape varieties and even briefly describe the kind of wines they give, someone gets excited […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Areni, Assyrtiko, Benoît Dorsaz, Cabernello, Chanton, Divico, Durize, Gregor Kuonen, Grosse Arvine, Gwäss, Himbertscha, Hitzkircher, Jancis Robinson, Lafnetscha, Nerolo, Obeidy, Olivier Pittet, Pansa Blanca, Papaz Karasi, Plantscher, Rèze, Riveyrenc, Serge Heymoz, Wine Mosaic project

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