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Okanagan winery picks

05/05/2020 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

My selection of Canada’s Okanagan wineries Four days in September were perfect for an introduction to Canada’s Okanagan wines. (See my background article on Canada’s western wine gems) I had a wonderful Vancouver host, Mike, who has explored many of the wineries and their wines over the years, and he had pre-selected some cellars he […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Annecy, British Columbia, Burrowing Owl, Canadian wine, Chardonnay, Chasselas, Gray Monk Estate, Howard Soon, Kelowna, Meritage, Mission Bell tower, Mission Hill, Okanagan Valley, Paccard Bell Foundry, Pinot Gris, Sandhill, Sauvignon Blanc, Shiraz, Similkameen Valley, Swiss Solar Tech Ltd., Syrah, Vanessa Winery, wine clubs, winery solar power

Zürichsee wine notes

02/03/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Notes on several wines from the Lake Zurich region (background information on the area’s wines: Zürichsee, pendulum swings). I tasted these at a press wine tasting at the Wein&Sein Höcklistein, Rapperswil-Jona, in December, organized as part of a larger Swiss Wine & Friends tasting event. The region has 32 wineries, and the quality level is […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Dreistand Weinbauzentrum Wädenswil, Freisamer, Le Petit Chateau winery, Lüthi Weinbau, Müller-Thurgau, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Räuschling, Sauvignon Blanc, Scheurebe, Schipf, Schwarzenbach winery, Stäfa wein, Weingut Bachmann, Weingut Erich Meier, Weingut Irsslinger, Weingut Rütihof, Zürichsee, Zürichsee wine region

Uncork now, Geneva white, Schaffhausen red – 30 May 2019

30/05/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

May and early June are for me the in-between time for wines, too cool to sip whites all evening outdoors but a night of red can feel like too much – we want to move on after a winter of them. I dropped in briefly at the end of a day of tasting organized by […]

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Albi, biodynamic wines, Cave de la Côte, Dardagny, Geneva, oaked Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Schaffhausen, Sophie Dugerdil, Swiss wines, Tolochenaz, Weingut Besson-Strasser

2017 wines from Swiss Mémoire group

17/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Once a year the Mémoire des Vins Suisses group invites the public to a tasting session where wineries present three vintages of their wine. It’s a don’t-miss event.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Azienda Mondò, Basel, Blaise Duboux, Bondola, Calamin, Caves de Chambleau, Chateau Maison Blanche Grand Cru Yvorne Chablais, Clos de Mangold, Ermitage, Gérald Besse, Heida St Jodernkellerei, Henri Cruchon, Hohle Gasse Pinot noir, Les Hutins, Maurice Zufferey, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Merlot-Cabernet blend, Nebbiolo, Petite Arvine, Petite Arvine Maître de Chais, Pinot Noir, Provins, Pur Sang blend, Raissennaz, Räuschling, Salvagnin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Schwarzenbach, Tenuta Castello di Morcote, Tenuta Vitivinicola Trapletti, the landscape of Swiss wine, Visperterminen, Weingut Jauslin, Weingut Wolfer, wine-tasting

Geneva’s open house: seek special treasures

27/05/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Geneva holds its wineries’ open house day this Saturday, 30 May, a great chance to discover some of the little treasure chest wines hidden there. Grape names you rarely hear in Switzerland, or at least not in French-speaking Switzerland, like Scheurebe, Kerner, Findling, Dunkelfelder and Cabernet Dorsaz, are on the wine lists of several wineries. […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Aligoté, Domaine des Charmes, Findling grape variety, Geneva, Kerner, Mandement, open house, Sauvignon Blanc, Scheurebe

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