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Organic wines: the high road to mainstream

15/07/2018 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Wine drinkers who are hunting for organic wines, slow down! These wines aren’t created overnight, but we have taken such a fancy to the idea of them in Europe, in such a short time, that the winemaking business barely has a chance to keep up. More organic wines, quality up, prices higher The number of […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: biodynamic, Changins, Concour Vin Bio Suisse, Domaine Beau-Soleil, Domaine de Chambleau, herbicides, Mont-sur-Rolle, Nyon, organic wines, research, student project, sustainability, Vaud, Vinatura

Germanier, one winery’s quest for the best

20/05/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Looking beyond formulas for great wines The Guardian’s article about natural, organic and biodynamic wines with its slew of missionary purists reminded me of a series of photos I took in March at the Jean-René Germanier winery in Vetroz. The best Swiss wineries are trying ancient, older and new methods and combinations of all of […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: biodynamic, Cayas, Fully, Gilles Besse, Jean-René Germanier, Mitis, natural wines, new technology, new wine cellar, organic, Patrick Regamey, Philippe and Veronyc Mettaz, Sierre, Swiss Wine Promotion, Vétroz

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

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

Wine language: amphores, eggs, biodynamic (update)

16/10/2014 by Ellen Wallace 8 Comments

Demeter and Swiss biodynamic vines Update: just after I posted this, Jacques Perrin’s latest blog post arrived, about the course I followed last week. It’s in French, but for anyone who reads French, it’s a good review of some of the current thinking about the use of cement eggs, amphores, etc. Correction: Writer Wink Lorch […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: amphores, biodynamic, concrete eggs, José Vouillamoz, organic, Pierre Thomas, Robert McIntosh, Vineglorious! book reviews

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