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The bark of wine

17/01/2020 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Uncork now: Humagne Rouge, Maurice Zufferey 2012 It was early evening as I walked across crusty January snow to the trunk of the old apple tree. Dents appeared on the white surface, small shadowed pits of snow gleaming in the late afternoon light. At 120 years the tree’s branches reach high into the sky but […]

Filed Under: Uncork now, Wineries Tagged With: Cave Maurice Zufferey, Donna Leon, Friends in High Places, Humagne Rouge, Irish handmade glass, Keith Leadbetter glass, wine glasses

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

Sierre for sun and wine

22/03/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Sitting in a hotel room in Sierre, with the sun shining and the Mémoire des Vins Suisses annual presentation of its treasure chest of aging wines about to begin – and I’m reminded what a lovely place this is for anyone who likes good wine. Sierre, in the middle of canton Valais, boasts more sunshine […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Hotel de la Poste, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Sierre

Pick up wine tips on WRS

30/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I’ve just finished another wine show with Pete Forster on WRS, this time talking about what’s happening around us right now – the harvest is going on and winemaking is starting. The sights and smells of fermentation, maturing, aging the wine: how we get from grapes on the vine to good stuff in the bottle. […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: harvest, interviews, radio, wine-making process, WRS

Learn about Swiss wines, two sessions coming up, presented by Ellen

19/03/2013 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Happy news on the wine-tasting front: I’ll be giving two evening sessions in the near future, in English, for those who want to learn more about Swiss wines. The first is at the Arvinis wine fair where I’ll be running an introduction to wine-tasting session with five Swiss wines and one from […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: "Summer blooms, Arvinis 2013, Ellen Wallace classes, flowers in our wines", learning about Swiss wine, Les Sens Lémaniques, wine-tasting

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