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The many colors of summer tomatoes

31/07/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Red, yellow, green, and orange tomatoes now available in Lake Geneva region Tomato season is well under way, and here are a few suggestions for using them. How to choose a tomato Remember you can’t judge a tomato by its cover. By that I mean, the best tomatoes may well be the ugliest. They have […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: farmers market, France, Geneva, geneve, Green, greenhouse, grilled, How to choose it, How to eat it, How-to, hydroponic, Lake Geneva, local, MarketDay, MarketDay - Seasonal products, Orange, recipe, red, suisse, summer, Swiss, Switzerland, tomato, vegetables, yellow

Changing of the guard in vineyards

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Autumn shifting to winter is always a visually charged season, with dramatic color changes. This is particularly true in a country like Switzerland: the Swiss wine landscape holds mountains and rivers and lakes and gentle hillsides all in close proximity. Altitude adds another element. We veer from winter to autumn and back to winter in […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature, News Tagged With: alps fog, black and white goats, Swiss alps first snow, Swiss goats, swiss weather, Swiss wines, tomatillos

Wine judges: bashers and king-makers not wanted

11/05/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Little Aigle, Switzerland was the scene of 9,200 wine judgements, 2-5 May. Wineries shipped their wares to this town in canton Vaud from around the world, hoping they would be noticed and found to be beautiful at the itinerant Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. The results come out 13 May. As one of the judges, I’m […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Aigle, books on Swiss wine in English, CMB 2018, CMB 2019, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, international wine competitions judge, Master of Wine, Mondial des Pinots, Swiss Wine Promotion, the landscape of Swiss wine, Vineglorious! Switzerland's Wondrous Wines, Vinum wine review

Literary wine, a post-weekend love affair

06/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

What a crazy weekend – first, 2.5 days of intense wine education at Vinea, the wine fair in Sierre. It ended for me and a group of journalists Saturday night late, with an extraordinary dinner at Didier de Courten’s restaurant, 19/20 Gault&Millau, with a lineup of beautiful wines to accompany the meal. The only problem […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: book fair, Chateau Mercier, Didier de Courten, Gamaret, Gamay, Hotel Terminus, Laurier d'Or, Le livre sur les quais, Protagoniste, Sierre, Terravin, Vinea, Vins de Morges

Droning their way to great grapes

01/10/2014 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Swiss vineyards take drones to new level GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Vineyards have been using drones regularly for aerial photography for some years, mainly in the US and Australia, but a Swiss pilot project is taking drones to new heights – not literally, but in terms of their technological prowess. This week a surprising Swiss trio […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Chateau de Châtagneréaz, drones, EPFL, harvest, infrared, Mont-sur-Rolle, precision viticulture, SenseFly, soil, Swiss vineyards, water

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