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Eating to learn about wine, Italian-style

03/06/2016 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

I spent an afternoon this week at Taste of Italy, an event in Geneva that brought in two dozen premium food suppliers from Italy, a kind of matchmaking fair for wholesalers, retailers and the restaurant business. My idea was to learn more about Italian regional products in order to better understand Italian wines. Wine and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: cheese, coffee, cold cuts, confits, dried meat, food, Italy, jam, lard, olive oil

Tuscan vines a month ahead of Vaud’s

07/05/2016 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Thursday morning I took a dawn walk along the vineyard trail at Tenuta L’Impostino in southern Tuscany, part of the Montecucco appellation region. The noise of the frogs was almost deafening at times – two very healthy large ponds at the bottom of a steep slope provide them with a good home. The trail is […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: bio, Italy, L'Impostino winery, Montecucco, organic, Sangiovese grape, season, Tuscany, Vaud

Vineglorious! media reviews

21/08/2014 by Ellen Wallace 11 Comments

Mentions and reviews by media of Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines

From ellen-books.com on the landscape of Swiss wines: “Vineglorious! gives readers a foothold to make sense of a complex and rich cultural landscape by exploring it through Swiss wines. Link to Book reviews.”

Filed Under: News, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: 24 Heures, Book my Place, Claire Adamson, David Moginier, GenevaLunch.com, Hello Switzerland, Italy, Le Temps, Lorenzo Colombo, media, Pierre Thomas, Pierre-Emmanuel Buss, review, Robert MacIntosh, Shirley Curran, Swiss wine landscape, the landscape of Swiss wine, Vinealia, Vineglorious!, Wine-searcher

First in a series of three: regional travel & wine

07/02/2013 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I’ve just posted the first of three articles about travel and wine touring in the region as a GenevaLunch feature article; the other two will appear Friday 6 February and Monday February: Swiss wines, followed by the Friendship Triangle on the area where France, Switzerland and Italy come together. The three have […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, France, France Today magazine, Friendship Triangle, Geneva, Grand'Cour, Italy, Jura, Jura wines, Patricia and Gerald Besse, Pellegrin, Switzerland, upcoming articles, vin jaune

Italy, France, Switzerland: 7 Ceps regional wine competition winners named

22/11/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The 7 Ceps wine competition is an interesting variation on the theme of “best of” that for most competitions means best of a grape variety or a politically defined region. These are wines from a geographically linked area, the vineyards in the greater Mont Blanc region with producers in Italy, France and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2012 awards, 7 Ceps wine competition, Aosta Valley, Bugey, canton Vaud, Coteaux de l'Ain, France, Geneva, Italy, Mont Blanc region, Neuchatel, Seyssel, Switzerland, Val d'Aoste, Valais, Vin de Savoie, vin du Jura

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