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Riesling-Sylvaner

Zürichsee, pendulum swings

13/02/2020 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

The Lake Zurich region was once a large wine-producing area, hard to believe when you stand anywhere at the edge of Lake Zurich now and see mainly industry and homes. But many of the slopes that are so populated today were once vine-covered. A mere 150 years ago Zürichsee had some 2,000 hectares of vineyard: […]

Filed Under: Travels, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Einsiedeln, Elbling, Konvent, Pinot Noir, Riesling-Sylvaner, Schipf winery, Zürichsee

It’s rhubarb season – and the wine?

01/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

It’s one thing to pucker up and eat raw rhubarb; it’s another to drink wine with something this sharp.

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Aargau, acacia barrels, Esprit Küttigen, Junge Schweiz Neue Winzer, Mathias Bechtel, Räuschling, raw rhubarb, Riesling-Silvaner, Riesling-Sylvaner, Susi Steiger-Wehrli, young Swiss wine producers group

Swiss wines for Milan Expo 2015 selected

24/02/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Bern announces lineup of food and wine for world expo BERN, SWITZERLAND – Completer, an old and uncommon grape variety, may be the Swiss wine that surprises and delights the most at Milan Expo 2015 this summer. But given the small amount of Swiss wine that is exported, the world fair in Italy will be […]

Filed Under: News, Travels Tagged With: Alouettes, Cave de Genéve, Chardonnay, Chasselas, Completer, Esprit de Genève, Fendant, Gamaret, Garanoir, Giubiasco, Haug, Jauslin, Merlot, Mermière, Milan Expo 2015, Petite Arvine, Pinot Noir, Provins, Riesling-Sylvaner, Rinklin, Rodeline, Rouvinez, sparkling, Swiss food stand, Swiss wines, Valsangiacomo, Vinattieri Ticinesi, Volg, Zurich Staatskellerei

An amazing 2004 organic white, still young and fresh

05/04/2013 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss white wines are so often drunk young that it’s a surprise to find an older one. Chasselas vertical tastings are becoming popular, thanks to efforts by wine producers in Vaud in particular, and we now know that some of them age beautifully and within 10 years they can develop new notes […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: aged wines, bio wines, Domaine de Beudon, Fully, Marion and Jacques Granges, Riesling-Sylvaner, white

Biodynamic wines, slipping into the mainstream

22/03/2013 by Ellen Wallace

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 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alexandre Truffer, Anne Mueller, Beudon, biodynamic wines, Chasselas, Demeter, Evelyne Malnic, Fully, Guide des Vins en Biodynamie, Jacque Granges, La Capitaine, ladybug, Maision Féret, Marie-Therese Chappaz, organic, Ramond Paccot, Reynald Parmelin, Riesling-Sylvaner, Villeneuve, Vinatura label, wine books

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