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biodynamic wines

Uncork now, Geneva white, Schaffhausen red – 30 May 2019

30/05/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

May and early June are for me the in-between time for wines, too cool to sip whites all evening outdoors but a night of red can feel like too much – we want to move on after a winter of them. I dropped in briefly at the end of a day of tasting organized by […]

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Albi, biodynamic wines, Cave de la Côte, Dardagny, Geneva, oaked Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Schaffhausen, Sophie Dugerdil, Swiss wines, Tolochenaz, Weingut Besson-Strasser

Between Earth and Sky

14/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Valentina Andrei and Nicolas Wüst with one of the first in a budding and beautiful collection of wines, Ivresse: think of the elegant sense of the word in French, a state of euphoria.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: biodynamic wines, Carlo Crisci, Christine Crisci, Combe de Noutse Fully, Etienne Krähenbühl, François Gautier, Gamay, GaultMillau, indigenous yeast, Ivresse, Jean-Claude Favre, Jérôme Aké-Béda, Le Beudon, Le Cerf restaurant, Magnificients, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Marion and Jacques Granges, Martigny, Merlot, Nicolas Wüst, Petite Arvine, Pierre Zufferey, Plan-Cerisier, Saillon, Valentina Andrei

Schott: a work in progress

24/01/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Anne-Claire Schott: we’ll need a few years to decide if she is a successful pioneer or a rebel with a natural cause

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Anne-Claire Schott, Aroma der Landschaft, art and wine, biodynamic wines, natural wines, Neuchatel, orange wine, Sarah Meylan, Swiss wine national awards

Biodynamic wines and the lunar eclipse

21/01/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The impact of the lunar eclipse on my glass of wine was zero because I was wisely sipping hot lemon and ginger tea at 4:30 this morning, a chilly wind rustling the nearby palm trees loudly. I had slept for 4 hours, then woke up to see if the moon show was worth my time. […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Garden & nature, Travels Tagged With: Albariño, Andalusia, biodynamic wines, Costa del Sol, fruit and food days wine taste, full moon, Galician wine, La Cala de Mijas, lunar eclipse, Rias Baixas, Ribero del Duero, Rose Box, rust moon, Spain

Biodynamic wines, slipping into the mainstream

22/03/2013 by Ellen Wallace

New guide provides useful tool GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Organic wines, known as “bio” in French, and more particularly biodynamic wines, were long regarded suspiciously by many consumers, conjuring up vague (and not quite right) images of hippy wines made with animal horns and consumed with unpalatable brown rice. Those were the bad old days and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alexandre Truffer, Anne Mueller, Beudon, biodynamic wines, Chasselas, Demeter, Evelyne Malnic, Fully, Guide des Vins en Biodynamie, Jacque Granges, La Capitaine, ladybug, Maision Féret, Marie-Therese Chappaz, organic, Ramond Paccot, Reynald Parmelin, Riesling-Sylvaner, Villeneuve, Vinatura label, wine books

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