GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – One week until Christmas and if you don’t yet have your gifts for family, friends or the company, don’t panic. You’re in luck: 2013 is a great year for offering Swiss gifts centred around food and wine, and if you hurry you can still get gifts delivered on […]
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‘Tis the season, bring on the bubbly stuff!
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – A hard week at the office started with tasting 80 sparkling wines Monday, including a handful of French champagnes. Oddly, friends and family showed very little sympathy for a solid eight hours in front of my three tasting glasses, sitting in a large 15th century chateau in Neuchatel. […]
Wine pick: Dom. Piron, beaujolais AOC Morgon 2011
ELLEN’S WINE WORLD / FRENCH WINES – Red wine, French, Beaujolais region. Domaine Piron AOC Morgon 2011 Beaujolais is having a comback thanks to some fine producers, and Domaine Piron is one of them. Beaujolais is two hours from Geneva; if you feel like celebrating the Beaujolais Nouveau on its home territory this weekend, you’ll […]
Wine pick: Domaine de Mourchon Séguret
ELLEN’S WINE WORLD / FRENCH WINES – Red wine, French, Côte du Rhône. Domaine de Mourchon “Grande Réserve” 2011, AOC Séguret These are our neighbours, just a couple hours down the Rhone river from Geneva, where the wines start to become bigger, richer, more powerful. One of the rising stars, as French wine media are […]
Swiss artisanal wines: great wine needs patience
Fourth in a 7-part series on the Swiss wine harvest 2013 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Wine artisan Meinrad Gaillard is quick to say making wine isn’t about money but about loving to make great wine, and the secret to that is time. Slow wine, wine that spends years in the cellar before […]