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How one man changed the wine profile of Valais

05/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Wine education Switzerland hosts a number of educational classes, often with tastings, from schools and museums and various wine groups. They are a great way to learn more about the landscape of Swiss wines – the culture, history, heritage, geography and more. The 1001 lives of Dr Wuilloud Henry Wuilloud was the subject of an […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc, Completer, Diolinoir, Henry Wuilloud, history of Swiss wine, José Vouillamoz, Josef-Marie Chanton, Merlot, Müller-Thurgau, Musée du Vin du Valais, Pinot Blanc, Swiss grape varieties, Syrah, the landscape of Swiss wine, Valais Wine Museum

Tsampéhro finds its stride

09/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A lingering autumn day of sunshine and the option to dine outside will put anyone in a good mood, but I don’t think this is the reason that the newly released Tsampéhro wines I tasted Monday were good – it was the best of the tastings I’ve done of these wines, which came onto the […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Christian Gellerstad, Clos de Tsampéhro, Completer, Cornalin, Drosophila suzukii, Emmanuel Charpin, Flanthey, Joanna Dayer, Joel Briguet, Merlot, Petite Arvine, Pinot Noir, Rèze, Savagnin Blanc, Tsampéhro, Vaas, Vincent Tenud, yield

Rare grapes, do we love their wines?

20/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

What do rare wines from old and new grapes taste like, and should we love them? See also: The strange world of rare grapes Discovery wines Serge Heymoz of Cave les Sentes sums up my feeling for many of the old varieties I’ve tasted, when he speaks of Rèze, a wine that has been around […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Audacieux, Benoît Dorsaz, Cave les Sentes, Chambleau, Completer, Divico, Ephémère, Galotta, Grosse Arvine, La Petite Grange, Lafnetscha, Memoire des Vins Suisses, rare wines, Räuschling, red wines Marie-Thérèse Chappaz, Rèze, Serge Heymoz

Hunting for great Arvines (Bern)

21/12/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

It’s hard to stay focused at a good wine fair. I went to Bern recently to visit Vinumrarum, an annual weekend wine fair for independent family wineries. I decided to focus on Petite Arvine wines. The more people who make this increasingly popular wine (Valais produced 1.9 million kg Arvine grapes in 2016, about 100,000 […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Cave de la Pierre, Chasselas, Completer, Crieur Public, Founex, Jacques Claviens, Lavaux, Louis Fonjallaz, Petite Arvine, Pinot Noir, Räuschling, Samuel Claviens, Venthôme, Weingut Hermann, Weingut Pircher, Weingut Ruetihof

Five Swiss rare wines

17/04/2016 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND – Thursday evening I gave a talk to a sellout crowd at the Anglo-Swiss Club in Locarno on unusual and rare Swiss grape varieties. We then tasted five of these wines. Here are some brief notes on the wines, with contact information for the wineries. All of these wines are produced in limited […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Travels, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Anglo-Swiss Club of Locarno, book-signing, Cave les Sentes, Completer, Cornalin, Denis & Catherine Mercier, Donatsch, Hotel Belvedere, Matasci, Räuschling, Rèze, Schwarzenbach, Serge Hemoz, Servagnin, tasting, Ville de Morges

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