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This weekend: Coppet’s garden fair, Valais wineries’ open days

06/05/2016 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

We’re all crossing our fingers, hoping the fine warm weather will hold for the weekend, with a wonderful holiday (Ascension, a 4-day break for many) series of events on. The Geneva Marathon will keep thousands of runners drinking water, but the rest of us may be sampling wines in Valais, which is holding its open […]

Filed Under: News, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Coppet, Payot, Valais, Vineglorious wine book, winery open days

Five Swiss rare wines

17/04/2016 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND – Thursday evening I gave a talk to a sellout crowd at the Anglo-Swiss Club in Locarno on unusual and rare Swiss grape varieties. We then tasted five of these wines. Here are some brief notes on the wines, with contact information for the wineries. All of these wines are produced in limited […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Travels, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Anglo-Swiss Club of Locarno, book-signing, Cave les Sentes, Completer, Cornalin, Denis & Catherine Mercier, Donatsch, Hotel Belvedere, Matasci, Räuschling, Rèze, Schwarzenbach, Serge Hemoz, Servagnin, tasting, Ville de Morges

New to Switzerland, babies or antiques – 3 good tools

27/10/2015 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – This is a good week for additional sources of help and information if you’re new to the Lake Geneva region – or new to the world of babies. Comparis, new web section on moving to Switzerland Comparis, which for nearly 20 years has been providing consumers with price comparisons for services and […]

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Literary wine, a post-weekend love affair

06/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

What a crazy weekend – first, 2.5 days of intense wine education at Vinea, the wine fair in Sierre. It ended for me and a group of journalists Saturday night late, with an extraordinary dinner at Didier de Courten’s restaurant, 19/20 Gault&Millau, with a lineup of beautiful wines to accompany the meal. The only problem […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: book fair, Chateau Mercier, Didier de Courten, Gamaret, Gamay, Hotel Terminus, Laurier d'Or, Le livre sur les quais, Protagoniste, Sierre, Terravin, Vinea, Vins de Morges

Talking about Swiss wines to US tourists

22/04/2015 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I had a fun few minutes with Peter Greenberg, US radio and television travel expert, who was in Geneva Tuesday to produce a show about what the city and Switzerland have to offer. He interviewed a small group of people on a number of subjects, from the 18th floor Residence at the […]

Filed Under: News, Travels, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: CBS travel editor, Geneva wines, Hotel Intercontinental Geneva, Peter Greenberg, Travel Detective

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