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Pairing wine with chicken curry

01/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Supper would be a curry, mid-hot, spicy but not burning, but those spices required some reflection when it came time to pick out a wine. We went for 2 whites.

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: chicken curry, food and wine pairings, Founex, Frères Dutruy, Geneva, Jean-Michel Novelle, Muscat, Sauvignon, Savagnin, Vins Vaudois, Viognier, white blend

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

Beer for same taste, wine for exploring taste

11/12/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The BBC has a fine article on how science has helped beer in recent years, much of it focusing on one of my personal favourites, Guinness. Part of the message is that beermakers seek consistency and go to great lengths to make sure a Guinness is a Guinness is a … you get it, the […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: beer, Bovet, Bursins, Delaharpe, Dutruy, Founex, Givrins, hail, vintages

Gamay, Arcenant 2009 Pierre Mandry (vinification, Marie-Therese Chappaz)

05/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Wine tasting notes, Swiss red wines wine video, red Red wine, dry Grape variety: Gamay Winery: Pierre Mandry, Domaines des Racettes Location: Founex, canton Vaud Price at the winery: n/a (sells mainly to restaurants) View this wine reviewed in French by Laurent Probst and in German by Gabriel Tinguely Complete list of GenevaLunch Swiss wine […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Arcenant, canton Vaud, Founex, Gamay, Pierre Mandry, red wines Marie-Thérèse Chappaz, Swiss wine tasting notes

Wine world: make way for women!

27/06/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Founex, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The world of wine, take notice: women have arrived. This is the clear message that came out of the annual general meeting Friday of International Associated Women in Wine, who compiled what appears to be the first-ever survey of women about their wine buying and consumption habits. National surveys were relatively […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: female wine makers, Founex, Switzerland

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