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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A hot French love affair
Organic wine, the new mistress of the French heartland – beautifully seductive and the hottest girl in town or country. Everybody wants to have her, and to listen to the marketing spiels, everybody’s got her. Whew, what a dame! But French mistresses have a reputation for artifice. I’ve been keen to see for myself to […]
Vineglorious! book’s living Index
If you would like a printed copy of the index for your book, please contact me at ellen@ellenwine.com. You can also download and print the two-page Vineglorious index, PDF, identical to the one below, but without the links. Index: Vineglorious! Switzerlnd’s Wondrous World of Wines Note that grape variety descriptions appear in the margins throughout […]
Sake novice
I am a sake novice: I may know a lot about wine, but sake is mostly outside my experience. Reading about it without having done any comparative tastings makes little sense, so last week when Le Verre en Cave in Geneva offered an evening class and tasting session, I decided to go. Here, in a […]
No drunks allowed (no problem)!
This is one of the stranger antidotes to drunkenness that’s come my way, and I’m still musing – does it make sense? Would I want to do it? What’s the logic here? Esquire has a blog on how to drink all night and not get drunk, by Aaron Goldfarb. It’s well-written and fun and very […]