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Wineries

Valais “star” wine awards

05/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The Etoiles du Valais wine awards were handed out 4 December in Bern to the wineries judged the best in the canton in 2019, each for a wine that features the canton’s native son grape varieties. Vintages were 2018 except for Syrah, Cornalin and Heidi, which benefit from more time, and these awards were for […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News, Wineries Tagged With: Chasselas, Cornalin, Dôle, Fendant, Heida, Humagne Rouge, Johannisberg, Païen, Petite Arvine, Syrah, Vins du Valais

Chasselas, mon amour!

05/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

November brightened by gold in Lausanne The gold in question is beautiful Chasselas wines, 16 of them that have been selected over the course of a year by the quality label Terravin‘s industry experts. These are technically the best of canton Vaud’s Chasselas wines, out of 409 wines that had already received the Terravin quality […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News, Wineries Tagged With: Aigle, Chablais AOC, Chasselas, Hospices Cantonaux, Hôtel de Ville Crissier, Lausanne, Terravin Lauriers de Platine, Vaud wine, Villeneuve Grand Cru, Vins Vaudois

Arvine, easy does it

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

What Arvine en Capital gets exactly right It’s all about the way your nose sniffs it, isn’t it? twitching like a rabbit to get a whiff of rhubarb or maybe wisteria in the air. And about the way your mouth lets it flow in, air and wine in a tight weave, moving together so that […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave Rodeline, Claudine and Yvon Roduit, Fully, Fully en Capital, Gerard Dorsaz, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Swiss 2018 wines, Valais wines

Arvine, November 2019 picks

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

Background article on Fully en Capital, the wine-tasting event where I sampled these wine selections. Arvines to fall in love with The 22 wineries that are members of the Association Fully Grand-Cru present their Arvines each November. Arvine is the second most widely grown grape in Fully, 32.3 hectares versus 73.3 ha for Fendant (Chasselas). […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave Rodeline, Claudine and Yvon Roduit, Fully, Fully en Capital, Gerard Dorsaz, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Swiss 2018 wines, Valais wines

Book review: Gault&Millau Suisse/Schweiz 2020

31/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The new GaultMillau guide can be purchased in bookstores and online for CHF34.90 in French, CHF52 in German. The two language versions differ: the German one contains all 830 restaurants and lists of hotels, wineries, popular dining spots and the guide’s stars of the year. The French version has all of this but “only” 395 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Anne-Catherine and Denis Mercier, Basel restaurants, Davide Ghidossi, Edmond Gasser, Gault Millau Swiss guide, Gault&Millau Schweiz 2020, Gault&Millau Suisse 2020, GaultMillau, GaultMillau Chef of the Year 2020, GaultMillau Sommelier of the Year 2020, Manuel Tresch, Patrick Adank, Raymond and Violaine Paccot, Sandrine Caloz, Solange Lucie and Tristan Perey, Sonja Grandits, Stucki restaurant, Susi Steiger-Wehrli

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