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The strange world of rare grapes

20/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 4 Comments

Why would you drink wine from grapes you’ve never heard of unless you’re on your honeymoon or an exotic vacation? Just when you thought you were starting to understand wine because you could rattle off the names of a few grape varieties and even briefly describe the kind of wines they give, someone gets excited […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Areni, Assyrtiko, Benoît Dorsaz, Cabernello, Chanton, Divico, Durize, Gregor Kuonen, Grosse Arvine, Gwäss, Himbertscha, Hitzkircher, Jancis Robinson, Lafnetscha, Nerolo, Obeidy, Olivier Pittet, Pansa Blanca, Papaz Karasi, Plantscher, Rèze, Riveyrenc, Serge Heymoz, Wine Mosaic project

Ice wine is kin, but not twin, to late harvest wines

05/12/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Wine-searcher has just published a helpful “Complete Guide to Ice Wine“. I’m often asked if Switzerland’s justly famous sweet late harvest wines are ice wines, because people from elsewhere assume that with snowy Alpine peaks this is a cold country and the grapes freeze on the vines. The term “vin de glacier” adds confusion to […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: glacier wine, Grains Nobles ConfidenCiel, ice wine, Jancis Robinson, late harvest, sweet, Tamlyn Currin, vin du glacier

Jancis Robinson, Vineglorious book review

28/12/2016 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

(Update, 29 December: many thanks to Jancis Robinson for permission to republish in its entirety a new review of my Swiss wine book ). A series of reviews by JR staffer Tamlyn Currin includes a review of Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines, published 27 December. Currin ran a series of year-end book reviews in 2015 and they were so popular […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book Tagged With: Gamay, Jancis Robinson, Labor of Love, Lavaux, Piedmont wines, Plant Robert, Rèze, Suzanne Hoffman, Tamlyn Currin, Vineglorious! book reviews

A wisp of Switzerland in the Oxford tome

18/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Jancis Robinson, the British grande dame of world wines, had sketchy impressions of Switzerland and Swiss wine after she was invited here last year, which left some of us thinking she hadn’t really paid attention. She might have made up for it today with an article on what you can expect

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arvine, fourth, Jancis Robinson, new edition, Oxford Companion to Wine

Chasselas on world wine radars

03/03/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Chasselas, Switzerland’s iconic white wine, is now on the Robert Parker radar. This is clearly good news for Swiss wineries that produce it – and since it is the second-most widely planted grape in the country, this counts. Chasselas has also inched onto Jancis Robinson’s radar, and Hugh Johnson was talking happily about it back […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Anne Müller, Chasselas, Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson, Louis Bovard, Medinette, notes, reviews, Robert Parker, Stephan Reinhardt, Swiss wines, Terravin Lauriers de Platine, Wine Advocate

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