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 […]
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Ski slopes and Petite Arvine
Note: At the end here you’ll find an interview done with me by Tony Johnston at WRS radio in Geneva, about Petite Arvine, one of Switzerland’s most interesting “native” specialty grapes. Tony and I have agreed to talk about a Swiss wine pick of mine every three weeks. This is not a commercial agreement and […]
Wine language: amphores, eggs, biodynamic (update)
Demeter and Swiss biodynamic vines Update: just after I posted this, Jacques Perrin’s latest blog post arrived, about the course I followed last week. It’s in French, but for anyone who reads French, it’s a good review of some of the current thinking about the use of cement eggs, amphores, etc. Correction: Writer Wink Lorch […]
Arvinis kicks off Swiss spring wine tastings
Reposted from Ellen’s Wine World, your source of information about Swiss wines, where I’ll be giving away some 1/2-price tickets to Arvinis later this week. 2-7 April in Morges Ellen’s Wine World: “Sensory pleasure of Swiss reds” LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The wine-tasting spring and summer season begins next week with the now-established tradition of the […]
Arvinis kicks off Swiss spring wine tastings
2-7 April in Morges Ellen’s Wine World: “Sensory pleasure of Swiss reds” LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The wine-tasting spring and summer season begins next week with the now-established tradition of the Arvinis wine fair in Morges. This is the 19th year for the privately-run fair that hosts 2,500 wines from around the world, including a large […]