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Geneva

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

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

Winter wine travels in Switzerland

09/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Be a tourist in Swiss vineyards in the winter! You’ll see the true landscape of Swiss wine: extraordinary geography and human hands meet, a continuation of a culture that reaches far back in time.

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Bex, CFF/SBB, Chateau de Chillon, Chateau de Ravire, Denens, Fully, Geneva, Lavigny, Miège, Ollon, Stalden, Swiss trains, Swiss vineyards, Valais, Vaud, Vispa River, wine tourism, winter tourism, Zermatt

More wine fun in the neighbourhood

01/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

There is a lot going on – far too much to list everything – in our little Swiss wine world. I’m having to say no to a trip to Zurich for the mega event, Expovina, which opens today. Too much going on, but I would go if I could, and so should you. Meanwhile, closer […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Garden & nature, News Tagged With: Cinquième Glorieuse, Domaine du Daval, Expovina, Geneva, Genève terroir, King Size Wine, Martigny, Peissy, saffron

Swiss wine tourism comes of age

24/06/2018 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

This could be a watershed year for Swiss wine, the year when wine tourism comes of age. Lausanne in March became one of the world’s 10 Great Wine Capitals, a network of wine centres that is behind the five-year-old International Best of Wine Tourism awards. Switzerland’s first awards, whose winners compete in the international awards, […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Amigne on the road, Arvinis, Best of Wine Tourism Awards, canton Vaud, Expovino, Féchy, Festival du Chasselas, Fête des Vignerons 2019, Geneva, Great Wine Capitals, Musée Valaisan du vin, Open cellar days, Pfyn-Finges Nature Park, Russin, Suisse oenotourisme, Swiss Wine Promotion, Swiss Wine Tourism, Vétroz, Vinea, Vinorama, Visit French Wine

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