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Travels

When I travel, I drink wine. In fact, I usually organize my travels around learning about it because wine isn't a beverage, it's a culture.

You can now find me on Substack and Medium

05/08/2022 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A happy move! Please note that as of August 2022 I am publishing a twice-monthly free subscription newsletter called Ellen’s Wine World, which points you to longer articles that I’m publishing on Medium. The newsletter link leads you to all of my recent articles and some archives from this blog, as I gradually move them […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Garden & nature, News, Travels, Uncork now, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Ellen Wallace wine, Swiss wine, Switzerland, the landscape of Swiss wine, wine, Wine Hiking Switzerland

Okanagan winery picks

05/05/2020 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

My selection of Canada’s Okanagan wineries Four days in September were perfect for an introduction to Canada’s Okanagan wines. (See my background article on Canada’s western wine gems) I had a wonderful Vancouver host, Mike, who has explored many of the wineries and their wines over the years, and he had pre-selected some cellars he […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Annecy, British Columbia, Burrowing Owl, Canadian wine, Chardonnay, Chasselas, Gray Monk Estate, Howard Soon, Kelowna, Meritage, Mission Bell tower, Mission Hill, Okanagan Valley, Paccard Bell Foundry, Pinot Gris, Sandhill, Sauvignon Blanc, Shiraz, Similkameen Valley, Swiss Solar Tech Ltd., Syrah, Vanessa Winery, wine clubs, winery solar power

Canada’s western wine valleys: hunting for gems

05/05/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Note: I visited Vancouver and toured wineries in western Canada in September 2019 and planned to publish this article in early 2020, to inspire wine-lovers who might be considering a Canadian tour this year. Part-way through the writing, Covid-19 suddenly appeared, and the idea of travel in 2020 became increasingly improbable. It’s taken me two […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Annecy, BC grape varieties, BC wine areas, bench, British Columbia, Canadian desert, Canadian wine, Chasselas, climate, First Nation, forest fires, fruit region, Gray Monk, hiking trails, ice wine, Kelowna, Meritage, Okanagan Valley, Osoyoos, Penticton, Pinot Gris, Similkameen Valley, Sonoran Desert, tasting fees, Vancouver, Vanessa, weather, wine clubs, wine exports, wine tourism

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

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