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Agroscope

Discovering and debating: Divico, Divona

18/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The conference in Bramois offered an exciting moment because it’s the first time so many Divico disease-resistant wines have been tasted together, organized by single grape wines, blends, oaked, not oaked.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Agroscope, Appellation d'origine contrôlée, Blaise Duboux, Bramois, Cave de Genéve, Cave de la Côte, Chambleau, Changins, disease-resistant grapes, Divico, Divona, France, Marie-Bernard Gillioz, Paradou, PIWI

Ruminations on recent wine news

20/05/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Sunday wine news perusings and musings for you. An article in Forbes about Swiss wine that will please the country’s wine promotion body, an interesting article about natural wine in The Guardian that is too focused on France, a provocative story in Le Temps about Bern’s efforts to centralize agricultural (including wine) research, a promising […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Agroscope, biodynamic, Changins, Forbes, Fribourg move, Harvard, Has wine gone bad, longevity, natural wines, organic, Roche et vin, Why Swiss wines continue to impress, wine and health, wine promotion

Let the sexual confusion begin!

29/03/2014 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Little brown pouches are appearing on vineyards in Switzerland at the moment, a reminder of the ongoing greening of the wine grape business. Switzerland remains a world leader in the use of pheromones instead of insecticides, an ecological solution to pests in vineyards. The system is based on large-scale diffusion in vineyards […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Agroscope, pests, pheromones, sexual confusion, Switzerland, vineyards, world leader

Zurich’s “unique” contribution to wine world in 2013

22/12/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Don’t miss the extraordinary tale, a GenevaLunch.com feature, of how the “1895” wine yeast that made headlines in 2008 has moved from a 113 year old bottle to the world stage, where it will be marketed in 2013.

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: "1895" yeast, Agroscope, Räuschling, research, wine, Zurich

Vintage 1895 Zurich wine yeast ready for the world

22/12/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Zurich’s Rauschling wine: proof of a genie in the bottle ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – A live yeast discovered four years ago in an 1895 Rauschling wine from Obermeilen, canton Zurich, will provide the world’s winemakers with an exciting new option in 2013. The yeast, which plays an important role in developing a wine’s nose, or unique […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: "1895" yeast, Agroscope, aromas, biomass, disgorgement, distilled beverages, dormant, fruitiness, Juerg Gafner, live yeast, Meiler 1895, nose, Obermeilen, old vintage, Rauschling grape, Reblaude, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schwarzenbach family, sparkling wines, wine yeast, Zurich

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