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Swiss wine news: GPVS awards, Arvinis guest, events

31/10/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Swiss Winery of the year title goes to the Dutruy brothers in Founex, Vaud The Dutruy brothers in Founex are celebrating tonight, winners of the 2017 Swiss Winery of the year title. It is given in part for the large number of wines that obtain medals, in relation to the number of entries a winery […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arvinis, bio, Ecole Nobilis, farming, Frères Dutruy, GPVS, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse 2017, grape-growing, La Capitaine, Moldavia, organic, Parmelin, Porto Quinto, Rhone valley, Rouvinez winery, St Joseph, Swiss winery of the year 2017, transhumance, Vinum, Wine Museum Valais

A hot French love affair

19/02/2017 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Travels Tagged With: Bagnols-sur-Cèze, bio, biodynamic, Chateauneuf-du-pape, Côtes du Rhône Villages, Côtes du Rhône wines, Domaine Clavel, Domaine Gressac, Domaine Luc Reynaud, Goudargues, Grenache, Laudun-Chusclan Cooperative, Laurence Reto Michelet, natural wines, Orange, organic wine, PRE horses, Syrah

The organic orgy

18/10/2016 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

We’re all going to the organic ball Imagine giving a party where you invite everyone you know and tell them to bring their friends. “Be prepared to strip down to the bare essentials, or less.” A lot of them find a good excuse to stay away, right? But those who show up can’t stop crowing […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: bio, canton Vaud, copper, France, organic wine, trends

Tuscan vines a month ahead of Vaud’s

07/05/2016 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Thursday morning I took a dawn walk along the vineyard trail at Tenuta L’Impostino in southern Tuscany, part of the Montecucco appellation region. The noise of the frogs was almost deafening at times – two very healthy large ponds at the bottom of a steep slope provide them with a good home. The trail is […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: bio, Italy, L'Impostino winery, Montecucco, organic, Sangiovese grape, season, Tuscany, Vaud

Video: planting Pinot Noir in Féchy

06/04/2012 by Ellen Wallace

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0xWpN5i-tQ[/youtube]LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Video first posted on Ellen’s Wine World on Facebook. Photos of new Pinot Noir planting were taken 2 April 2012, with Raymond Paccot of Domaine La Colombe and his vineyard team. One row of new vines replaces two older ones which were planted too closely together to allow mowing by machine. These […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: bio, Education, Féchy, growing wine grapes, old vines, organic, Pinot Noir, planting new vines, Raymond Paccot, Switzerland, Vaud

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