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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

The bark of wine

17/01/2020 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Uncork now: Humagne Rouge, Maurice Zufferey 2012 It was early evening as I walked across crusty January snow to the trunk of the old apple tree. Dents appeared on the white surface, small shadowed pits of snow gleaming in the late afternoon light. At 120 years the tree’s branches reach high into the sky but […]

Filed Under: Uncork now, Wineries Tagged With: Cave Maurice Zufferey, Donna Leon, Friends in High Places, Humagne Rouge, Irish handmade glass, Keith Leadbetter glass, wine glasses

A Pinot Noir by any name

07/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Pinot Noir takes so many forms; I decided Monday at the Mémoire & Friends wine fair in Zurich to ask a small number of producers who make more than one Pinot Noir for details about the differences. Here are a few notes: Clones and styles Weingut Wolfer, Weinfelden, Thurgau, near Lake Constance. Martin Wolfer (whose […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Clos Martha, Graubuenden Grisons wine region, Graubünden, Möhr-Niggli, pilgrim, Pinot Noir, Weinbau von Tscharner, Weingut Wolfer

Swiss wine 2009 vintage report

06/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

10 years on, how well are these wines doing? The Mémoire des Vins Suisses has become so well known as a collection of some of the finest wine producers in Switzerland that it’s easy to forget the original idea behind the group was to create a bank of diverse Swiss wines with aging potential and […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: aged Chasselas, aged wines, Agriloro, Azienda Mondò, Clos Marta, Cornalin, Denis & Catherine Mercier, Liesch, Madeleine Mercier, Memoire & Friends, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Merlot, Möhr-Niggli, oaked Pinot Noir, Pinot Noir, Roberto e Andrea Ferrari, Swiss Wine Vintage Award 2019, Swiss wine vintages, Switzerland vintage 2009, Syrah, Tenuta San Giorgio, Zwaa Osterfingen Oberhallau

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