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2017 wines from Swiss Mémoire group

17/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Once a year the Mémoire des Vins Suisses group invites the public to a tasting session where wineries present three vintages of their wine. It’s a don’t-miss event.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Azienda Mondò, Basel, Blaise Duboux, Bondola, Calamin, Caves de Chambleau, Chateau Maison Blanche Grand Cru Yvorne Chablais, Clos de Mangold, Ermitage, Gérald Besse, Heida St Jodernkellerei, Henri Cruchon, Hohle Gasse Pinot noir, Les Hutins, Maurice Zufferey, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Merlot-Cabernet blend, Nebbiolo, Petite Arvine, Petite Arvine Maître de Chais, Pinot Noir, Provins, Pur Sang blend, Raissennaz, Räuschling, Salvagnin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Schwarzenbach, Tenuta Castello di Morcote, Tenuta Vitivinicola Trapletti, the landscape of Swiss wine, Visperterminen, Weingut Jauslin, Weingut Wolfer, wine-tasting

Swiss and other wine news: great harvest, autumn fun, future of fairs

27/09/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Golden harvest of 2018 Grapes are in the air, literally, with the Swiss harvest moving out of the vineyards and into the cellars, where fermentation is adding pungent aromas to wine villages across the country. Facebook and Instagram images from wineries abound now, most of them featuring the finest grapes we’ve seen in a few […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Aigle, Arvinis, Badoux, Cave Alain Emery, Chasselas, Chateau de Vaas, Cornalin, Domaine de la Colombe, Domaine des Chevaliers, Fête des vignerons, International Best of Wine Tourism, Marie-Jo Valente, Maurice Zufferey, Pinot Noir, Semaine du goût, Swiss harvest 2018, Swiss Wine Tourism Prize, Vinea, Vinum Montis

What makes a wine traditional?

03/03/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Tradition is a hot word in wine marketing right now, one that reassures consumers – and yet few of us who are on the buying end of the sales chain question what it means, I think. If you have been making wine the same way for 50 years, does that make your wine traditional? 100 years? Or what […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: AOP, Blaise Duboux, Chasselas, cheese, Cornalin, Dézaley, Dôle, Domaine Chappaz, Epesses, Etivaz, Fully, La Liaudisaz, Maurice Zufferey, Meilen, R3 Räuschling, Roquefort, Sierre, Vaud, Zurich

Top picks, reds from Vinea fair

03/09/2016 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

I normally opt to taste a lot of Pinot Noir at the Vinea Wine Fair, but this year my focus was other reds, in particular Gamays and Cornalins. My notes on favourites from tasting them yesterday – Friday – follow, ending with other reds that were among my top wines tasted at Vinea. This year […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Aigle, Alain Emery, Anne-Catherine et Denis Mercier, black cherries in wine, Brivio, Cave La Romaine, Cave Les Deux Cîmes, Cave les Sentes, Cave Maurice Zufferey, Cave Philippe Bovet, Cornalin, Domaine des Muses, Domaine la Rodeline, Flanthey, Fully, Gamay, Givrins, Leuk-Stadt, Maurice Zufferey, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Sierre, Ticino, Valais, Vaud, Vin d'Œuvre, Vinea 2016, Vinea Wine Fair

Swiss Winemaker of the Year 2011 named

25/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Top awards for Swiss wines go to mix of new and old producers BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Winemaker of the Year for 2011 is Diego Mathier from Salquenen/Salgesch (cellar: Nouveau Salquenen) in canton Valais who previously won the coveted award in 2007. He was named at a gala dinner Tuesday night 25 October in […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2011, award, awards, Begnins, best Swiss wines, blind tastings, competition, Diego Mathier, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, Maurice Zufferey, most points overall, organic wines, Reynald Parmelin, Salgesch, Salquenen, Swiss Winemaker of the Year

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