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Discovery channel: Moldovan wines

28/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Until this week, I’d never had a Moldovan wine. Here’s my primer and wine tasting notes, after a Wednesday evening visit to the 13 stands of the guest of honour, Wine of Moldova, at the Arvinis wine fair in Montreux (April 25-30). The country, the wine regions The country is the Republic of Moldova (1991), previously the […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Asconi winery, economy, Feteasca Alba, Feteasca Neagra, Feteasca Regala, Furmint, GDP, Gitana winery, grapes, Moldavia, Moldova, Rara Neagra, Timbrus Purcari Estate, Vinaria din Vale, wine, Wine of Moldova

Suzukii fight could bump up wine prices

08/04/2015 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss federal agriculture officials say that the cost of fighting the devastating Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing drosophila) pest could start at CHF3,000 per hectare, and rise, depending on the intensity of the grower’s efforts to deal with it. One hectare can provide a wine producer with anywhere from 700 to 3,000 bottles […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: cost, damage, Drosophila suzukii, fight against, grapes, spotted wing drosophila

When are grapes ripe?

01/10/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Adapted from Ellen’s Garden World, published 1 October 2014 The grape harvest has begun in Switzerland, but many of the best growers are holding off for a few more days. As the author of the first book in English on Swiss wines in 20 years (Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines), I’m out in the […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Chardonnay, Chasselas, Givrins, grapes, harvest, Philippe Bovet, ripeness

Grapes: great so far, fingers crossed

28/08/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva is the latest area to declare its grapes very healthy, as we head into the critical month of September. Cantonal authorities have been testing the wine grapes and checking their health in the past few days. Guillaume Potterat, an oenologist with canton Geneva, told newspaper GHI that it’s too early to […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: grapes, healthy, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Sierre, veraison, Yvorne

Three things about Scotland, learned this week

26/03/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – You carry a name like Wallace and you’re bound to be interested in all things Scottish, so when you’re Wallace, the wine writer, and you see that someone north of Edinburgh is planting grapes, you’re all ears. Bloomberg reports that Christopher Trotter, a food writer and chef, has planted 200 vines that […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Christopher Trotter, global warming, grapes, Scotland

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