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Marie-Therese Chappaz

Arvine, easy does it

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

What Arvine en Capital gets exactly right It’s all about the way your nose sniffs it, isn’t it? twitching like a rabbit to get a whiff of rhubarb or maybe wisteria in the air. And about the way your mouth lets it flow in, air and wine in a tight weave, moving together so that […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave Rodeline, Claudine and Yvon Roduit, Fully, Fully en Capital, Gerard Dorsaz, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Swiss 2018 wines, Valais wines

Arvine, November 2019 picks

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

Background article on Fully en Capital, the wine-tasting event where I sampled these wine selections. Arvines to fall in love with The 22 wineries that are members of the Association Fully Grand-Cru present their Arvines each November. Arvine is the second most widely grown grape in Fully, 32.3 hectares versus 73.3 ha for Fendant (Chasselas). […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave Rodeline, Claudine and Yvon Roduit, Fully, Fully en Capital, Gerard Dorsaz, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Swiss 2018 wines, Valais wines

2018 Swiss wines: young Valais wines tasted in May

25/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Les Glorieuses is a series of wine tastings held on four Mondays in May every year in Martigny. It’s open to wine and food professionals and tends to attract many sommeliers – Mondays were chosen because that’s the day when many restaurants are closed and sommeliers have a day off. I made it to two […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: 2019 Swiss white wines, Benoît Dorsaz, Cave Rodeline, Chardonnay, Christophe Abbet, Claudine Roduit, Didier Jorat, Domaine Gérald Besse, Folaterre, Fully, Gilbert Devayes, Hermitage, Les Glorieuses, Leytron, Magliocco et fils, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Marsanne, Martigny, Mikaël Magliocco, MTC, Païen, Petite Arvine, Pinot Blanc, Rhone valley

2018 Swiss white wines: state of the art

25/07/2019 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Between March and late June I was busy tasting scores of Swiss white wines from every corner of the country. March is when the earliest bottled wines (except the January Neuchatel unfiltered wines) begin to show up at professional tastings. I’ve tasted them at wineries, some before they were bottled, others at a series of […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: 2019 vintage, Didier Joris, grapes acidity, grapes maturity, harvest 2019, Les Glorieuses, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Swiss wine vintages, The Landscape of Swiss Wine book

Between Earth and Sky

14/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Valentina Andrei and Nicolas Wüst with one of the first in a budding and beautiful collection of wines, Ivresse: think of the elegant sense of the word in French, a state of euphoria.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: biodynamic wines, Carlo Crisci, Christine Crisci, Combe de Noutse Fully, Etienne Krähenbühl, François Gautier, Gamay, GaultMillau, indigenous yeast, Ivresse, Jean-Claude Favre, Jérôme Aké-Béda, Le Beudon, Le Cerf restaurant, Magnificients, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Marion and Jacques Granges, Martigny, Merlot, Nicolas Wüst, Petite Arvine, Pierre Zufferey, Plan-Cerisier, Saillon, Valentina Andrei

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