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Uncork now! Pinot Gris late harvest, Alpine Gamay – 13 February 2020

13/02/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

New Year’s Eve was the perfect night to open a late harvest sweet Pinot Gris wine. Badoux makes this classy Lettres de Noblesse white wine that increases in elegance and richness as it ages in the bottle. The 2011 is now perfect, with apricot and honey notes, great depth and excellent balance between acidity and […]

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Aigle, Badoux, Fully, Gamay, Gamay Combe de Noutse, late harvest, Lettres de Noblesse, Pinot Gris, Saillon, Valentina Andrei

Uncork now, 28 February: Humagne Rouge, Räuschling

28/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Perfect pairing: liver and onions with Humagne Rouge, and for another night, Zurich Räuschling with Gruyère fondue.

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Domaine Dussez, food and wine pairings, Humagne Rouge, liver, Räuschling, Saillon, Valais, Winzerkeller Strasser

Between Earth and Sky

14/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Valentina Andrei and Nicolas Wüst with one of the first in a budding and beautiful collection of wines, Ivresse: think of the elegant sense of the word in French, a state of euphoria.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: biodynamic wines, Carlo Crisci, Christine Crisci, Combe de Noutse Fully, Etienne Krähenbühl, François Gautier, Gamay, GaultMillau, indigenous yeast, Ivresse, Jean-Claude Favre, Jérôme Aké-Béda, Le Beudon, Le Cerf restaurant, Magnificients, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Marion and Jacques Granges, Martigny, Merlot, Nicolas Wüst, Petite Arvine, Pierre Zufferey, Plan-Cerisier, Saillon, Valentina Andrei

Hans Erni, Farinet vineyard artist, dies age 106

22/03/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Hans Erni, artist from Lucerne, has died, age 106 – a painter and sculptor who was still at work daily, to the end. In 2014 he created and donated a “Colombe de la jeunesse”, or youth dove metallic fountain, which was erected near the Farinet vines, the smallest officially registered vine parcel in the world, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: doves, Farinet, Hans Erni, Saillon, UN mural Geneva, Valais, vines, vineyard

Eat-me-now apricots brighten Valais roadsides

08/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

By Ellen Wallace Saillon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – There are dozens of good reasons to go to canton Valais right now, starting with temperatures that fall one degree for every 200 metres or so of altitude in the Alps. But the best reason for the next week to 10 days is apricots, fully ripe now, with […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: apricots, price, ripe, roadside stands, Saillon, Swiss food news, Switzerland, Valais

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