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Commenting on Washington Post article on Swiss wines

18/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

The Washington Post carries an article about Swiss wine, which is nicely written and some good wines are listed, plus it draws the attention of a wider audience to Swiss wines, all to the good. It also has all the usual clichés (chocolate, cheese, tiny number exported, etc.) that you get when a writer helicopters […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Beudon, chocolate, cliches, Concours de Bruxelles, Fêtes des Vignerons, Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson, learn about Swiss wines, Marion and Jacques Granges, Pinot Noir, Swiss wine article, Swiss wine landscape, the landscape of Swiss wine, Washington Post

Wine and food are not dating: they’re married

04/12/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Goûts et terroirs, an excellent fair The more wine tastings, competitions and other events that I attend with wine professionals, the more uncomfortable I am with that wines are almost always rated at tasting sessions without food – out of the context in which people generally drink them. Yesterday I read, on Vivino, an assessment […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Bulle, Cave du Rhodan, cheese, chocolate, dried meats, food and wine fair, food and wine pairing, Goûts et terroirs, Gregor Kuonen, Merlot, Paolo Basso, Val d'Anniviers, Valais, wine, Zermatt pain guide de montagne

When “corked” is a great taste

24/09/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Baker-pastry makers in canton Vaud have given the word “corked” a good name, thanks to a local specialty invented 65 years ago, the Bouchon Vaudois. If you haven’t yet had one, look for them at the 24 confiséries that have the right to make them under strict guidelines issued by their cantonal professional organization. During […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: biscuit, bouchon, canton Vaud, chocolate, sweet, Vaudois

Swiss drinking less milk, less wine but cheese and chocolates are happy staples

26/04/2013 by Ellen Wallace

BERN, SWITZERLAND – Chocolate and cheese consumption in Switzerland aren’t slipping, but two liquid icons of Swissness are continuing their downward trend: milk and wine consumption are both slipping, despite an increasing population. Whether the larger share of foreigners in the population partially explains the change is a matter for conjecture. Cheese consumption has remained […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2012, cheese, chocolate, consumption, milk, Switzerland, wine

The smart guys’ lunch? green tea, chocolate, fruit and red wine

11/10/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Swiss cognitive function, measured in Nobels, and chocolate consumption, measured by sales, both high GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A tip, maybe, from the Swiss, who are the world’s innovation winners and who, by 2011, had garnered more Nobel prizes per capita than any other nation: keep eating certain fruits and chocolate and drinking green tea and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: chocolate, cocoa, flavenoids, flavenols, Franz Messerli, fruits, green tea, New England Journal of Medicine, New York, red wine

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