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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

2017 wines from Swiss Mémoire group

17/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Once a year the Mémoire des Vins Suisses group invites the public to a tasting session where wineries present three vintages of their wine. It’s a don’t-miss event.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Azienda Mondò, Basel, Blaise Duboux, Bondola, Calamin, Caves de Chambleau, Chateau Maison Blanche Grand Cru Yvorne Chablais, Clos de Mangold, Ermitage, Gérald Besse, Heida St Jodernkellerei, Henri Cruchon, Hohle Gasse Pinot noir, Les Hutins, Maurice Zufferey, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Merlot-Cabernet blend, Nebbiolo, Petite Arvine, Petite Arvine Maître de Chais, Pinot Noir, Provins, Pur Sang blend, Raissennaz, Räuschling, Salvagnin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Schwarzenbach, Tenuta Castello di Morcote, Tenuta Vitivinicola Trapletti, the landscape of Swiss wine, Visperterminen, Weingut Jauslin, Weingut Wolfer, wine-tasting

What makes a wine traditional?

03/03/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Tradition is a hot word in wine marketing right now, one that reassures consumers – and yet few of us who are on the buying end of the sales chain question what it means, I think. If you have been making wine the same way for 50 years, does that make your wine traditional? 100 years? Or what […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: AOP, Blaise Duboux, Chasselas, cheese, Cornalin, Dézaley, Dôle, Domaine Chappaz, Epesses, Etivaz, Fully, La Liaudisaz, Maurice Zufferey, Meilen, R3 Räuschling, Roquefort, Sierre, Vaud, Zurich

Sleuthing a Flaesch Pinot’s 91 points from Parker

28/03/2013 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Here’s the news: Pinot Noir ’09 from Gantenbein winery in canton Graubuenden was given a note of 91 by Robert Parker wine reviewer Neal Martin. This comes on the heels of four Swiss wines mentioned recently by another Parker reviewer, David Schildknecht. The information was bundled into a press release from Swiss […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Basel, Blaise Duboux, Cantina Van der Crone Visini, Chasselas, David Schildknecht, Flaesch, Gantenbein winery, Graubuenden, Hanspeeter Ziereisen, Lavaux, Merlot, Neal Martin, Pierre-Luc Leyvraz, Pinot Noir, points, Robert Parker, Swiss wines, The White Club, Ticino, Tinello, Vaud

Parker team wakes up to Swiss wines (update)

12/01/2013 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Those of us who know Swiss wines knew the day would come when the Robert Parkers of the world would discover Helvetia’s rich and varied collection of wines; that day has arrived. Swiss wine researcher and author José Vouillamoz in 2011 invited David Schildknecht, a member of Parker’s wine reviewing team and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Best of 2012, Blaise Duboux, Cantina Kopp von der Crone Visini, David Schildknecht, Domaine des Muses, Lavaux, Memoire des Vins Suisse, Pierre-Luc Leyvraz, Robert Parker, Robert Taramarcaz, Sierre, Swiss wines, Valais, Vaud, wineries

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