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Benoît Dorsaz

Arvine, easy does it

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

What Arvine en Capital gets exactly right It’s all about the way your nose sniffs it, isn’t it? twitching like a rabbit to get a whiff of rhubarb or maybe wisteria in the air. And about the way your mouth lets it flow in, air and wine in a tight weave, moving together so that […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave Rodeline, Claudine and Yvon Roduit, Fully, Fully en Capital, Gerard Dorsaz, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Swiss 2018 wines, Valais wines

Arvine, November 2019 picks

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

Background article on Fully en Capital, the wine-tasting event where I sampled these wine selections. Arvines to fall in love with The 22 wineries that are members of the Association Fully Grand-Cru present their Arvines each November. Arvine is the second most widely grown grape in Fully, 32.3 hectares versus 73.3 ha for Fendant (Chasselas). […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave Rodeline, Claudine and Yvon Roduit, Fully, Fully en Capital, Gerard Dorsaz, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Swiss 2018 wines, Valais wines

2018 Swiss wines: young Valais wines tasted in May

25/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Les Glorieuses is a series of wine tastings held on four Mondays in May every year in Martigny. It’s open to wine and food professionals and tends to attract many sommeliers – Mondays were chosen because that’s the day when many restaurants are closed and sommeliers have a day off. I made it to two […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: 2019 Swiss white wines, Benoît Dorsaz, Cave Rodeline, Chardonnay, Christophe Abbet, Claudine Roduit, Didier Jorat, Domaine Gérald Besse, Folaterre, Fully, Gilbert Devayes, Hermitage, Les Glorieuses, Leytron, Magliocco et fils, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Marsanne, Martigny, Mikaël Magliocco, MTC, Païen, Petite Arvine, Pinot Blanc, Rhone valley

They were right: small yields, great old wines

14/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A remarkable tasting session Monday 12 November, of older wines from Valais, made by a group of small independent vignerons-encaveurs, members of the Charte de qualité St Théodule. The oldest wine was 1964, just two years before a handful of pioneers, intent on making quality wine, created the charter. They were firm in the belief […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave Caloz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave le Bosset, Cornalin, Denis Mercier, Denis Saverot, Ermitage, Humagne Blanc, Humagne Rouge, Marie-Bernard Gillioz, Païen, Petite Arvine, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Roduit, Simon Male & Fils, Syrah, Weinschmiede Salgesch

Rare grapes, do we love their wines?

20/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

What do rare wines from old and new grapes taste like, and should we love them? See also: The strange world of rare grapes Discovery wines Serge Heymoz of Cave les Sentes sums up my feeling for many of the old varieties I’ve tasted, when he speaks of Rèze, a wine that has been around […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Audacieux, Benoît Dorsaz, Cave les Sentes, Chambleau, Completer, Divico, Ephémère, Galotta, Grosse Arvine, La Petite Grange, Lafnetscha, Memoire des Vins Suisses, rare wines, Räuschling, red wines Marie-Thérèse Chappaz, Rèze, Serge Heymoz

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