GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I’m now posting my tasting notes mainly on a new Facebook page, Ellen’s Wine World. Blind tastings as well as my notes on wines that I’ve tasted at wineries or drinking at home will appear there. Today’s wine, for example, is a beauty, a new wine that Raymond Paccot from La Colombe […]
Pinot Gris
Yvorne Pinot Gris Passerillé 2008 Les Celliers du Chablais
Wine tasting notes, Swiss white wines wine video, white White wine, sweet Grape variety: Pinot Gris, vine-dried, 2008 Winery: Les Celliers du Chablais Location: Aigle Price at the winery: CHF29 for 37.5cl and CHF57 for 75cl View this wine reviewed in French by Laurent Probst and in German by Gabriel Tinguely Complete list of GenevaLunch […]
Mondial du Pinot Noir, a judge’s pleasures
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I’m just about recovered from the three days of intensive work 19-21 August as a judge at the international wine competition in Sierre, the Mondial du Pinot Noir. We tasted and noted 1,314 wines from 21 countries around the world; we were 50 judges from 30 countries who worked for three mornings […]
Geneva, Vaud announce award-winning wines
GENEVA / LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The news was already out of the bag that 2010 will be a great vintage for wines in Switzerland but now the best producers of a great vintage are also known. The new crop of recently bottled 2010 wines as well as 2009 wines that have been maturing (and some […]
Germans shine at Pinot Noir competition, but Spain and Valais big winners
Sierre, Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A wine from Spain and another from Valais are the big winners at the annual Mondial du Pinot Noir wine competition, the world’s only top-level competition for wines made from this widespread grape, held in Sierre. “Cortijo los aguillares”, a Pinot Noir from Ronda, Spain, from the domain of Jose […]