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Search Results for: Completer

What makes a wine traditional?

03/03/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Tradition is a hot word in wine marketing right now, one that reassures consumers – and yet few of us who are on the buying end of the sales chain question what it means, I think. If you have been making wine the same way for 50 years, does that make your wine traditional? 100 years? Or what […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: AOP, Blaise Duboux, Chasselas, cheese, Cornalin, Dézaley, Dôle, Domaine Chappaz, Epesses, Etivaz, Fully, La Liaudisaz, Maurice Zufferey, Meilen, R3 Räuschling, Roquefort, Sierre, Vaud, Zurich

Jancis Robinson, Vineglorious book review

28/12/2016 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

(Update, 29 December: many thanks to Jancis Robinson for permission to republish in its entirety a new review of my Swiss wine book ). A series of reviews by JR staffer Tamlyn Currin includes a review of Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines, published 27 December. Currin ran a series of year-end book reviews in 2015 and they were so popular […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: Gamay, Jancis Robinson, Labor of Love, Lavaux, Piedmont wines, Plant Robert, Rèze, Suzanne Hoffman, Tamlyn Currin, Vineglorious! book reviews

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

Restaurants gear up for Swiss Wine Week

04/11/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

BERN, SWITZERLAND – Restaurants throughout Switzerland are preparing to focus on Swiss wines during the third annual Swiss Wine Week scheduled for 12-22 November. It’s your best opportunity to sample Swiss wines, and not just local wines, with food designed to go with them. Lake Geneva region examples Check out the interactive map to find […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Agriloro, Auberge l'Union Arzier, Beau-Rivage Palace Lausanne, Donatsch, l'Ermitage de Bernard Ravet, La Colombe, Le Petit Château, Moncucchetto, Raymond Paccot, Semaine des vins suisse, Swiss Wine Week, Swiss wines, Ticino wines, Vinea Swiss Wines app

Swiss wines for Milan Expo 2015 selected

24/02/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Bern announces lineup of food and wine for world expo BERN, SWITZERLAND – Completer, an old and uncommon grape variety, may be the Swiss wine that surprises and delights the most at Milan Expo 2015 this summer. But given the small amount of Swiss wine that is exported, the world fair in Italy will be […]

Filed Under: News, Travels Tagged With: Alouettes, Cave de Genéve, Chardonnay, Chasselas, Completer, Esprit de Genève, Fendant, Gamaret, Garanoir, Giubiasco, Haug, Jauslin, Merlot, Mermière, Milan Expo 2015, Petite Arvine, Pinot Noir, Provins, Riesling-Sylvaner, Rinklin, Rodeline, Rouvinez, sparkling, Swiss food stand, Swiss wines, Valsangiacomo, Vinattieri Ticinesi, Volg, Zurich Staatskellerei

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