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Winemaker of the Year from Ticino, top wine Valais and organic from Geneva

23/10/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Number one wine is from Valais and best organic wine from Geneva BERN, SWITZERLAND – Head for Valais for the best bottle of wine in the country, a Johannisberg from Chamoson, but go to Ticino if you want to sample the collection from the top winemaker in Switzerland. And Geneva is home to the best […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Bern gala event, blends, Chamoson, Choulex, Claudio Tamborini, competition, Domaine de Miolan, Domaine du Cretacombe, Geneva, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse 2012, judges, Lamone winery, Merlot, Mueller-Thurgau, red, Riesling, rosé, sparkling, sweet, Swiss wine national awards, top Swiss wines, Valais, white

Best Swiss wines, national competition finalists named

23/08/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Click on images to view larger GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Grand Prix du Vin Suisse (GPVS) finalist wines, 72 of them, were announced 22 August by Vinea, the Sierre-based organization that organizes the national wines competition. The GPVS judging took place in June, when 3,000 wines from 600 producers were assessed in blind tastings during […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: blends, categories, Chasselas, Gamay, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, Mueller-Thurgau, national competition, Pinot Noir, red, rosé, single grape, sparkling, Swiss wines, top wines, varietal, white, wine competition, winners

Swiss wine consumption slipped in 2011

19/04/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Bigger harvest, good quality, lower consumption – stocks rise BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss drank slightly less wine in 2011, with consumption down by 2.3 percent to 2.72 billion hectolitres, a reverse after 2010’s increase of 3.2 percent. Consumption has remained relatively stable overall, fluctuating between 2.07 and 2.86 for the past 10 years. But […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2011, Chasselas, foreign wines, Gamaret, Gamay, import, Merlot, OFAG, per capita, Pinot Noir, red, stocks, Swiss wine consumption, total, white

Blind tasting notes: Léman Noir 2010 Philippe Bovet

06/04/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Video review now posted on Ellen’s Wine World on Facebook BLIND TASTING SERIES WITH ROMANDUVIN on YouTube (search Among the vines, “blind tasting notes”, to see all reviews posted to date) Léman Noir 2010 Red wine, full-bodied Grape varieties: Gamaret, Merlot, Cabernet Franc Winery: Philippe Bovet Location: Givrins, canton Vaud Price at the winery: CHF26 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: blind tastings, Cabernet Franc, French-speaking Switzerland, Gamaret, Givrins, Merlot, Philippe Bovet, red, Roman du Vin, Vaud

List of top 66 Swiss wines in national Grand Prix

23/08/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Here’s the list of the 66 wines that are finalists in the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse 2011 national wine competition, by category, in alphabetical order within each category. These are the wines I wrote about yesterday that will compete for the 33 gold and silver medals to be awarded in October, […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 11 categories, 2011 Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, blends, Chasselas, Gamay, Merlot, Mueller-Thurgau, Pinot Noir, red, residual sugar, rosé, single grape wines, Sweet wines, top 66, white varietals, winning wines

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