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Garden & nature

Very small sojourns in the Swiss Alps

07/05/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I came home from travels abroad March 29, a matter of poor timing, via an eerily empty world of airports I hadn’t planned to visit – 6 days of being bounced around en route to Geneva. I wandered through soundless stations, to a world that had been shutting down for nearly two weeks. Travel would […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature Tagged With: avocados, coronavirus, cover-19 airports, Crowdfarming, full moon, planting potatoes, Ricola sage, self-distancing, Swiss Alps, travels

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

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

New treasure in old Sion vineyard

31/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I would never have discovered one particularly beautiful perch on an Alpine slope if it weren’t for Dr Henry Wuilloud. The exhibit “Les 1001 vies [the 1001 lives] du Docteur Wuilloud” at the Valais Wine Museum in Sierre/Salgesch runs for another month, until 30 November. It opened in March with a remarkable conference and tasting […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Wineries Tagged With: Alain Wuilloud, Cave des Bouquetins, Charly Wuilloud, Diament Noir, Diolinoir, Dr Henry Wuilloud, dry stone walls, Francine Wuilloud, Iseline Wuilloud, Merlot, Musée du Vin du Valais, Petite Arvine, Pinot Gris, Romain Wuilloud, Sion, Valais Wine Museu

The October garden

26/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

To brighten your day and remind you that the aromas and flavours we find in wines often become familiar to us first through our gardens: here are a few photos from my Swiss Alpine garden, at 1100 metres altitude, in late October. You might think I have enough squash, but when I stopped by the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Garden & nature Tagged With: Jordane Carron, October garden, Opale apple, Pressoir des Alpes, pumpkin, Squash

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