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Rhone

A walk in Salgesch, Valais, in the rain

04/05/2015 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

This was a very wet weekend in Switzerland, which meant I pretty much had the vineyards to myself, nice for photos as long as you don’t insist on sun in your images. This area is to the east (upriver side of the village) of the well-known Sierre-Salgesch vineyard trail, 6 km and 2.5 hours, that […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: hiking trails, management, Musée du vin et de la vin, national park, Pfinge forest, Pinot Noir, Rhone, Salgesch, Salquenen, Valais, vineyards, water

Wineries open house day in Geneva 12 May

10/05/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva wineries open house day celebrates its 25th year GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva’s Caves Ouvertes, or winery open house day, has good reason to celebrate this year. It is the 25th year of the event and in that short time it has gone from a handful of visitors in 1987 to an estimated 20,000 last […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Anières, Arve, Bernex, cantonal agriculture office, Caves Ouvertes, Dardagny, free, Geneva, Gy, Jussy, Lully, Mandemant, Meyrin, open house day, Rhone, Russin, Satigny, shuttle buses, Soral, Terrific Terroir guide, visits, wineries in Geneva area

CHF109,250 for 6 Hermitage bottles in Geneva

14/05/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Christie‘s had a good week, as did Sotheby’s, in Geneva, with sales of fine jewels netting the two nearly CHF100 million in sales. The diamond sales makes the price of a fine bottle of wine dim a bit, but nevertheless, the CHF109,250 ($98,951) paid at Christie’s wine auction at the Four Season’s Hotel des Bergues […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: auction, Christie's, Four Seasons Hotel des Bergue, French wine, Geneva, Hermitage, Hermitage La Chapelle, Rhone, Syrah, vintage 1961

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