Thursday morning I took a dawn walk along the vineyard trail at Tenuta L’Impostino in southern Tuscany, part of the Montecucco appellation region. The noise of the frogs was almost deafening at times – two very healthy large ponds at the bottom of a steep slope provide them with a good home. The trail is […]
organic
Wine language: amphores, eggs, biodynamic (update)
Demeter and Swiss biodynamic vines Update: just after I posted this, Jacques Perrin’s latest blog post arrived, about the course I followed last week. It’s in French, but for anyone who reads French, it’s a good review of some of the current thinking about the use of cement eggs, amphores, etc. Correction: Writer Wink Lorch […]
Biodynamic wines, slipping into the mainstream
New guide provides useful tool GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Organic wines, known as “bio” in French, and more particularly biodynamic wines, were long regarded suspiciously by many consumers, conjuring up vague (and not quite right) images of hippy wines made with animal horns and consumed with unpalatable brown rice. Those were the bad old days and […]
Video: planting Pinot Noir in Féchy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0xWpN5i-tQ[/youtube]LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Video first posted on Ellen’s Wine World on Facebook. Photos of new Pinot Noir planting were taken 2 April 2012, with Raymond Paccot of Domaine La Colombe and his vineyard team. One row of new vines replaces two older ones which were planted too closely together to allow mowing by machine. These […]
Organic, fairtrade and small chocolate manufacturers in Switzerland
A GenevaLunch news story on Kraft, which this year bought out Cadbury, moving some of its tax base to Zurich prompted one reader and former Cadbury fan to write that he’s looking for new chocolate companies. I suggested he check this list of chocolate companies on wikipedia. His search reminded me that if you live […]