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Search Results for: glacier wine

Curzilles, a terroir, a fine wine

10/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Vertical tasting of 7 vintages, Cave La Colombe It’s probably safe to say almost no one beyond a handful of wine industry professionals really masters the appellation and naming system for Swiss wines. This is in any event changing soon, so don’t be surprised if I say I drank a really good wine called Curzilles […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Bourguignons, Chasselas, Curzilles, Doral, Féchy, La Colombe, Laura Paccot, Pinot Gris, Raymond and Violaine Paccot, Riesling, Rossier, Swiss Grand Cru, the landscape of Swiss wine, Vaud grape variety research, Vaud lieux-dits

Winespeak: Why we say Valais, not the Valais

31/01/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Swiss cantons have official designations in German, French, Italian and English. Note that the English name is not “The Valais”, but Valais, with English usage clearly defined by the Swiss Confederation’s official style guide.

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: etymology, official canton names in English, place name, Switzerland names for cantons, The Fine Line, Times Atlas of the World, Valais name

Why it pays to visit small wineries

15/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A glass of wine is of course much more than its contents. It’s a place, its geography and geology, its history, its people. When you visit a small winery, you have a chance to hear about this. Last weekend I went to Colline de Daval in Sierre to learn a bit about distilling, of which […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: apricots, Bertrand Monique Caloz-Evéquoz, castle, Chamoson, Charte St Théodule, Colline de Daval, Davalrone, distillery, Domaine des Muses, geology, Great gold medal, guest house, irrigation, kir, Merlot, Mondial des Pinots, Pinot Noir, raspberries, Rouvinez winery, Sierre, Sierre rockslide, Syrah, vignérons-encaveurs

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

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