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Recent wine fun, Best of Swiss Wine Tourism

02/10/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Prologue: cycling, diplomats, wine in Spain I haven’t been writing here much lately. This summer has been devoted mainly to three things: renovating a garden, building up physical strength following three major orthopaedic surgeries in 15 months and working on a collection of essays and another of short stories. But there has been, happily, time […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Ardea seal, Best of Swiss Wine Tourism, Cave Emery, Cave La Tornale, Chamoson, Chateau d'Aigle, Espace Terroir Miège, Genussregion Wildlingen, Hirschens Weinhaus, In Gir Par Cantin, Jean-Daniel Favre, Mondial du Chasselas, Oenoparc des Celliers de Sion, organic wines in Spain, Petite Arvine, Pintes Ouvertes Vaudoise, Provins, Schlaf-fass, Society Marbella magazine, Spanish white wines, Sur les traces des Titans, Swiss diplomats wine, Vins du Valais Cyclosportive

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

Vaud Chasselas, 8 Valais stars – coming soon

04/11/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I’ll be taking part in, and reporting back to you soon, on two annual events that are not open to the public but which will point you to some of the best Swiss wines. The first is the annual selection of favourite Chasselas wines from canton Vaud, the Lauriers de Platine Terravin, organized by the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Violier, Cornalin, Dôle, Etoiles du Valais, Fendant, Heida, Hôtel de Ville Crissier, Humagne Rouge, Johannisberg, Lauriers Platine, Petite Arvine, Sélection du Valais, Syrah, Terravin, Vaud wine quality label

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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