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Uncork now, Geneva white, Schaffhausen red – 30 May 2019

30/05/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

May and early June are for me the in-between time for wines, too cool to sip whites all evening outdoors but a night of red can feel like too much – we want to move on after a winter of them. I dropped in briefly at the end of a day of tasting organized by […]

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Albi, biodynamic wines, Cave de la Côte, Dardagny, Geneva, oaked Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Schaffhausen, Sophie Dugerdil, Swiss wines, Tolochenaz, Weingut Besson-Strasser

Aerial views, Geneva vineyards

18/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Flying from Geneva to London on Tuesday the pilot kindly took us over the canton’s beautiful vineyards, first Satigny, a bit of Peney, then Russin and Dardagny, as we followed the snaking river below. The harvest wasn’t yet underway on a large scale, or we would have seen more tractors on the […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: aerial views, Allondon River, Dardagny, French-Swiss border, Geneva, Peney, Rhone river, Russin, Satigny

Straight to the source: vineyard car crash

10/03/2014 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An 18-year-old driver of a stolen car, whose alcohol level was just within the legal limits, crashed through a Dardagny vineyard in canton Geneva early Saturday 8 March after a high-speed chase. Geneva police say the youth, who is French and lives in Pessinge, was spotted driving over the limit at 05:00 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: car crash, Dardagny, vines, vineyard

Wineries open house day in Geneva 12 May

10/05/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva wineries open house day celebrates its 25th year GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva’s Caves Ouvertes, or winery open house day, has good reason to celebrate this year. It is the 25th year of the event and in that short time it has gone from a handful of visitors in 1987 to an estimated 20,000 last […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Anières, Arve, Bernex, cantonal agriculture office, Caves Ouvertes, Dardagny, free, Geneva, Gy, Jussy, Lully, Mandemant, Meyrin, open house day, Rhone, Russin, Satigny, shuttle buses, Soral, Terrific Terroir guide, visits, wineries in Geneva area

Vaud and Geneva announce cantonal wine awards

20/06/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA / LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Selections winners for Geneva and Vaud are out, and what a fine collection of wines they are! 2010 was a good year, we keep hearing, and sampling some of the winning wines last week confirmed this for me. I’ll add my notes on some of the wines in the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: awards, cantonal competitions, Cave Les Bossons, Dardagny, Les Hutins, Marcassin, Peissy, prizes, reds, roses, Sanglier, selection, Selection Geneva, Selection Vaud, Sweet wines, white, winners

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