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California vines shaken slightly

10/03/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A 6.8 earthquake rattled northern California slightly early Monday, 70km west-northwest of Ferndale, California and about 240 miles northwest of Napa valley. The tremors were felt in San Francisco, but no damage has been reported from the earthquake, which had a depth of 7 km. Sonoma County had a smaller earthquake in January that was […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: California, earthquakes, Ferndale, Napa, Sonoma, vineyards

Oenovideo wine film festival in Aigle pulling in crowds

02/06/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – France’s itinerant wine film and photo festival, Oenovideo, is a hit at this year’s venue, Aigle, in canton Vaud. I spent Thursday evening at the festival and was enchanted by the “L’Esprit du vin, le réveil des terroirs”, a 1h32 minute film on biodynamic winemakers, mainly in France. I was startled by […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: biodynamic wines, California, exhibit, film festival, Oenovideo, Stephen Ashton, Swiss news in English, weekend events, what's on, Wine Country Film Festival, wine films, wine photos

You call it delicious, I call it …

19/04/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Yesterday a friend and I recalled frog’s legs and snails. She has become a vegetarian but says she’s always loved meat and stopped because she was eating too much of it. She waxed poetic over the remembered delicacy of frog’s legs. I recalled that my father, a true blue American, was horrified […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: California, chefs, Chinese cuisine, cultural, French food, Fuchsia Dunlop, Gourmet magazine, habits, tastes

It’s Arvinis time! Head to Morges for sunny California wines

14/04/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Arvinis welcomes American wines for the wine fair’s 15th year Wine fair offers easy way to discover Swiss wines Morges, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Morges is offering a fine pair of anniversary bouquets starting Wednesday 14 April. The first tulips are opening at the lakeside park which is home to the annual Tulip Festival, and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2010, Arvinis, California, fair, Morges, Swiss, tourism, tulips, U.S., wine, wine fair

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