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Jura

Heavenly! Jura heights with devilish Satigny (date change)

25/03/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Saturday, 23 May, CHF150 for dinner, special Wine & Dine overnight rates Some recipes can’t go wrong and here is one you can test in May, when spring is painting its colours in the Jura: the combination of Satigny, Geneva winery Domaine du Paradis with the hotel’s chef Rudy Pacheco in the dreamy setting of […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Cave Domaine du Paradis, Didier Cornut, Hotel des Horlogers, Jura, Le Brassus, Rudy Pacheco, Satigny

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

Regional travel & wine: French Jura

07/02/2013 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – France’s Jura mountains are defined by deep, secret forests and rushing streams, so it is always a surprise to suddenly come upon snug villages edged by magnificent vineyards. Coming down into Arbois, there is such an abrupt change of scenery and state of mind that your arrival calls for a pause. A […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: AOC, Arbois, Challon, Christie's, clavelin, France, Franche-Comte, Jura, Pinot Noir, Savagnin, vin jaune, wine, wine tourism

1774 Arbois Vin Jaune up for auction in Geneva

12/04/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Vin Jaune, a master’s palette for the palate BERN, SWITZERLAND – Eight generations of the Vercel family in Arbois, France, across the Jura mountains, have held onto a 1774 bottle of the region’s famed Vin Jaune, storing it in the family’s vaulted underground cellar. Now the 87-centilitre bottle, with its typical Burgundian rounded belly and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 1774 bottle, Arbois, auction, Christie's, clavelin, Jura, Vercel family, vin jaune, wine news

Nature’s wild gardens, spring’s best ones

28/04/2010 by Ellen Wallace

GUEST post by Shirley Curran A hike in the Jura mountains It is very quiet up on the Colomby de Gex during the week but, today, we saw 13 chamois. It is difficult to know what they are eating on the barren cliff side but they are very busy. The green woodpeckers, jays and cuckoos […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: chamois, Colomby de Gex, cuckoos, daffodils, flowers, France, jays, Jura, Jura viper, mountains, spring, Switzerland, woodpeckers

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