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Zürichsee wine notes

02/03/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Notes on several wines from the Lake Zurich region (background information on the area’s wines: Zürichsee, pendulum swings). I tasted these at a press wine tasting at the Wein&Sein Höcklistein, Rapperswil-Jona, in December, organized as part of a larger Swiss Wine & Friends tasting event. The region has 32 wineries, and the quality level is […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Dreistand Weinbauzentrum Wädenswil, Freisamer, Le Petit Chateau winery, Lüthi Weinbau, Müller-Thurgau, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Räuschling, Sauvignon Blanc, Scheurebe, Schipf, Schwarzenbach winery, Stäfa wein, Weingut Bachmann, Weingut Erich Meier, Weingut Irsslinger, Weingut Rütihof, Zürichsee, Zürichsee wine region

Uncork now! Pinot Gris late harvest, Alpine Gamay – 13 February 2020

13/02/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

New Year’s Eve was the perfect night to open a late harvest sweet Pinot Gris wine. Badoux makes this classy Lettres de Noblesse white wine that increases in elegance and richness as it ages in the bottle. The 2011 is now perfect, with apricot and honey notes, great depth and excellent balance between acidity and […]

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Aigle, Badoux, Fully, Gamay, Gamay Combe de Noutse, late harvest, Lettres de Noblesse, Pinot Gris, Saillon, Valentina Andrei

Zürichsee, pendulum swings

13/02/2020 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

The Lake Zurich region was once a large wine-producing area, hard to believe when you stand anywhere at the edge of Lake Zurich now and see mainly industry and homes. But many of the slopes that are so populated today were once vine-covered. A mere 150 years ago Zürichsee had some 2,000 hectares of vineyard: […]

Filed Under: Travels, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Einsiedeln, Elbling, Konvent, Pinot Noir, Riesling-Sylvaner, Schipf winery, Zürichsee

Servagnin’s 600th birthday

12/02/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

This is the wine you must not miss in 2020. You might have to line up to taste it, but it’s worth the trouble. This is Servagnin’s 600th birthday year. Its story is charming and it is a wine worth celebrating. This may be as close as we get to what Burgundies once tasted like, […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Morges wines, Raoul Cruchon, Robert Cramer, Savoie, Servagnin, Swiss Grand Cru, Swiss wine, Swiss wine history, Vaud wines, Vins Vaudois

Citizen-vines: to be loved, to dance, to love

28/01/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The weather has been clement, holidays are over, and out in the vineyards, the steady snip-snip of electric pruning clippers fills the air, now emptied of migratory birds gone south. I will go home to a fine oaked Syrah tonight, ready after four years maturing and bottle-cellared. First, though, a walk through the vines. The […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Wineries Tagged With: Kellenberger, Love never dies, pruning, Syrah, Vin d'Œuvre

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