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Givrins

Uncork now, 8 March 2019

11/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Swiss wines with a touch of Scotland! Today’s wines are both Pinot Noirs, nothing pale or timid about either of them, one from Givrins near Geneva and the other from the Swiss Alps.

Filed Under: Food & dining, Uncork now Tagged With: Cave des Deux Cimes, Chamoson, Givrins, Jamie McCulloch, Philippe Bovet, Pinot Noir, Valais, Vaud, Vinea Wine Fair, Vins du Valais, Vins Vaudois

Uncork now: 2 Vaud red blends

08/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Several wineries now make Garanoir-Gamaret blends which tend to give a wine that is easy to drink, more robust than a Pinot Noir yet lighter than the more tannic wines such as Syrah and Cornalin, which are popular as hearty reds in Switzerland.

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Changins, disease resistant, Domaine des Remans, Domaine Mermetus, Gamaret, Garanoir, Givrins, Lavaux, Lavigny, Les Perriéres, Mara, new grape varieties, Philippe Bovet, Rossier family, Satigny, Swiss red blends

Top picks, reds from Vinea fair

03/09/2016 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

I normally opt to taste a lot of Pinot Noir at the Vinea Wine Fair, but this year my focus was other reds, in particular Gamays and Cornalins. My notes on favourites from tasting them yesterday – Friday – follow, ending with other reds that were among my top wines tasted at Vinea. This year […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Aigle, Alain Emery, Anne-Catherine et Denis Mercier, black cherries in wine, Brivio, Cave La Romaine, Cave Les Deux Cîmes, Cave les Sentes, Cave Maurice Zufferey, Cave Philippe Bovet, Cornalin, Domaine des Muses, Domaine la Rodeline, Flanthey, Fully, Gamay, Givrins, Leuk-Stadt, Maurice Zufferey, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Sierre, Ticino, Valais, Vaud, Vin d'Œuvre, Vinea 2016, Vinea Wine Fair

2015 harvest: simply beautiful

10/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The weather gods have been good. The 2015 grape harvest is officially underway in many areas and we can now say it: very good to great wine grape quality in most parts of Switzerland, with a slight dip in quantity. The sun has been shining, the evenings have been cool, the rain […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2015 harvest, Agriloro, Catherine Mercier, Cave La Romaine, dryness, Electus, Flanthey, Francesco Tettamanti, Givrins, grape flowering, heat, Joel Briguet, La Colombe, Philippe Bovet, Provins, vendange, veraison

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

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