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Uncork now! Pinot Gris late harvest, Alpine Gamay – 13 February 2020

13/02/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

New Year’s Eve was the perfect night to open a late harvest sweet Pinot Gris wine. Badoux makes this classy Lettres de Noblesse white wine that increases in elegance and richness as it ages in the bottle. The 2011 is now perfect, with apricot and honey notes, great depth and excellent balance between acidity and […]

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Aigle, Badoux, Fully, Gamay, Gamay Combe de Noutse, late harvest, Lettres de Noblesse, Pinot Gris, Saillon, Valentina Andrei

Between Earth and Sky

14/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Valentina Andrei and Nicolas Wüst with one of the first in a budding and beautiful collection of wines, Ivresse: think of the elegant sense of the word in French, a state of euphoria.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: biodynamic wines, Carlo Crisci, Christine Crisci, Combe de Noutse Fully, Etienne Krähenbühl, François Gautier, Gamay, GaultMillau, indigenous yeast, Ivresse, Jean-Claude Favre, Jérôme Aké-Béda, Le Beudon, Le Cerf restaurant, Magnificients, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Marion and Jacques Granges, Martigny, Merlot, Nicolas Wüst, Petite Arvine, Pierre Zufferey, Plan-Cerisier, Saillon, Valentina Andrei

Uncork now: Dôle, Cornalin

23/01/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

What to uncork, 10 January – January is a month when I’m not ready for heavy reds again -I want hearty vegetables, a bit less meat, plenty of exercise.

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Cave Ardevaz, Chandra Kurt, Cornalin, Etoiles du Valais, Gamay, January wines, Mercier Vins, Pinot Noir, Provins, Valais Dôle, wines to uncork now

Why sommeliers love a grab bag of wines

28/02/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Many – most? – of us tend to repeat certain meals at home and we know what we like to drink with them – and now and again we try something a bit different. But home is about comfort and coziness, while dining out is about splashing out socially and emotionally, whether or not you […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News Tagged With: Chasselas, Domaine des Curiales, Domaine des Landions, Emeline Zufferey, Gamaret, Gamay, GaultMillau, Geoffrey Bentrari, Gerard Besse, Javet&Javet, Louis Bovard, Maison Carré, Merlot, Petite Arvine, Pinot Noir, President Wilson Hotel, Räuschling, sommelier, Swiss grape varieties, Swiss wines app, the Face of Swiss Wine, Vinea

Jancis Robinson, Vineglorious book review

28/12/2016 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

(Update, 29 December: many thanks to Jancis Robinson for permission to republish in its entirety a new review of my Swiss wine book ). A series of reviews by JR staffer Tamlyn Currin includes a review of Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines, published 27 December. Currin ran a series of year-end book reviews in 2015 and they were so popular […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: Gamay, Jancis Robinson, Labor of Love, Lavaux, Piedmont wines, Plant Robert, Rèze, Suzanne Hoffman, Tamlyn Currin, Vineglorious! book reviews

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