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A quick tourist in Lucerne

02/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Lucerne is one of my favourite spots in Switzerland, a small city that never fails to delight me. Last week I had just two free hours to visit, but it’s the perfect place for that.

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Chapel Bridge, Jesuit church, Lucerne, Mill Bridge, Opus Vinothek, Weeping lion monument, wine tourism

Fine wines from the next generation

01/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The young Swiss wine producers group showcases the changing landscape of Swiss wine, where the focus is strongly on precision, quality, retaining close ties to the land and making wine that reflects it.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Junge Schweiz Neue Winzer, Lucerne 2019 wine tasting, the landscape of Swiss wine, young Swiss wine producers group

Uncork now, 1 April 2019

01/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

A dashingly handsome new Chardonnay (first vintage) from Weinfelden in Thurgau and a charming and rare Freiburger from Vully in Fribourg

Filed Under: Food & dining, Uncork now, Wineries Tagged With: Chardonnay, Fabrice Simonet, Freiburger, Freisamer, Lake Morat, Le Petit Château, Martin Wolfer, Morat-Vully, Murtensee, Pinot Noir, Thurgau

Pairing wine with chicken curry

01/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Supper would be a curry, mid-hot, spicy but not burning, but those spices required some reflection when it came time to pick out a wine. We went for 2 whites.

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: chicken curry, food and wine pairings, Founex, Frères Dutruy, Geneva, Jean-Michel Novelle, Muscat, Sauvignon, Savagnin, Vins Vaudois, Viognier, white blend

It’s rhubarb season – and the wine?

01/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

It’s one thing to pucker up and eat raw rhubarb; it’s another to drink wine with something this sharp.

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Aargau, acacia barrels, Esprit Küttigen, Junge Schweiz Neue Winzer, Mathias Bechtel, Räuschling, raw rhubarb, Riesling-Silvaner, Riesling-Sylvaner, Susi Steiger-Wehrli, young Swiss wine producers group

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