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Book review: Gault&Millau Suisse/Schweiz 2020

31/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The new GaultMillau guide can be purchased in bookstores and online for CHF34.90 in French, CHF52 in German. The two language versions differ: the German one contains all 830 restaurants and lists of hotels, wineries, popular dining spots and the guide’s stars of the year. The French version has all of this but “only” 395 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Anne-Catherine and Denis Mercier, Basel restaurants, Davide Ghidossi, Edmond Gasser, Gault Millau Swiss guide, Gault&Millau Schweiz 2020, Gault&Millau Suisse 2020, GaultMillau, GaultMillau Chef of the Year 2020, GaultMillau Sommelier of the Year 2020, Manuel Tresch, Patrick Adank, Raymond and Violaine Paccot, Sandrine Caloz, Solange Lucie and Tristan Perey, Sonja Grandits, Stucki restaurant, Susi Steiger-Wehrli

Book reviews: gardens, wines

29/05/2019 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Bergli, an English language publisher in Basel, has two new books out that are relevant here: Gardens Switzerland and The Landscape of Swiss Wine. The first, about large public and private gardens, is a gem. The wine book has good points but is significantly flawed.[…]

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Basel, Decanter, Fête des Vignerons 2019, Francois Murisier, GaultMillau, guides to Swiss wine in English, Hester MacDonald, José Vouillamoz, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Stephan Reinhardt, Sue Style, Swiss cheese books, Swiss food writer, Swiss Gardens, Swiss Wine Promotion, Swiss wine terroir, the landscape of Swiss wine, The Landscape of Swiss Wine book, Vinea

Uncork now, Basel beauties

16/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

I saw just how good wines from Basel could be, during a two-day meeting 11-12 April in that city, with the Mémoire des Vins Suisses. Its newest winery member, Weingut Jauslin, impressed me by its overall quality.

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Basel Land, Basel Landschaft, Basel wine, GaultMillau, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Mondial des Pinots, Mueller-Thurgau, Müller-Thurgau, Pinot Noir, Riesling-Silvaner, Weingut Jauslin

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

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

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