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Lavaux

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

Hunting for great Arvines (Bern)

21/12/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

It’s hard to stay focused at a good wine fair. I went to Bern recently to visit Vinumrarum, an annual weekend wine fair for independent family wineries. I decided to focus on Petite Arvine wines. The more people who make this increasingly popular wine (Valais produced 1.9 million kg Arvine grapes in 2016, about 100,000 […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Cave de la Pierre, Chasselas, Completer, Crieur Public, Founex, Jacques Claviens, Lavaux, Louis Fonjallaz, Petite Arvine, Pinot Noir, Räuschling, Samuel Claviens, Venthôme, Weingut Hermann, Weingut Pircher, Weingut Ruetihof

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

Lavaux embraces organic

03/12/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Lavaux is about to put to rest forever the idea that organic wines are second-best, following a decision by a group of growers-producers Wednesday evening to stop using all synthetic products and to sharply curb the number of vine treatments by helicopters, from 7-8 a year to 4. The vote by producers […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Biosuisse, Cully, Epesses, Grandvaux, grapevine diseases, helicopters, Lavaux, organic wines, Vaud wines

Lavaux wine tourism gets train day pass (update)

03/07/2014 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Lavaux and its vineyards are getting a tourism boost in the form of a new day pass (carte journalière) that allows visitors to use several different trains, buses and funicular cars freely throughout the day and to reach all the area’s tourism sites via train. The Mobilis Lavaux Riviera Pass can be […]

Filed Under: News, Travels Tagged With: bus, CFF, day pass, Lavaux, Mobilis passes, rail, tourism, train, wine

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