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Ice wine is kin, but not twin, to late harvest wines

05/12/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Wine-searcher has just published a helpful “Complete Guide to Ice Wine“. I’m often asked if Switzerland’s justly famous sweet late harvest wines are ice wines, because people from elsewhere assume that with snowy Alpine peaks this is a cold country and the grapes freeze on the vines. The term “vin de glacier” adds confusion to […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: glacier wine, Grains Nobles ConfidenCiel, ice wine, Jancis Robinson, late harvest, sweet, Tamlyn Currin, vin du glacier

When “corked” is a great taste

24/09/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Baker-pastry makers in canton Vaud have given the word “corked” a good name, thanks to a local specialty invented 65 years ago, the Bouchon Vaudois. If you haven’t yet had one, look for them at the 24 confiséries that have the right to make them under strict guidelines issued by their cantonal professional organization. During […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: biscuit, bouchon, canton Vaud, chocolate, sweet, Vaudois

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

Yvorne Pinot Gris Passerillé 2008 Les Celliers du Chablais

04/02/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Wine tasting notes, Swiss white wines wine video, white White wine, sweet Grape variety: Pinot Gris, vine-dried, 2008 Winery: Les Celliers du Chablais Location: Aigle Price at the winery: CHF29 for 37.5cl and CHF57 for 75cl View this wine reviewed in French by Laurent Probst and in German by Gabriel Tinguely Complete list of GenevaLunch […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Aigle, blind tastings, canton Vaud, Les Celliers du Chablais winery, passerillé, Pinot Gris, sweet, video, vine-dried grapes, white, Yvorne

November love affair, birds and vines (photo)

10/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

If you’re a bird, or better yet several thousand birds, the best party in town is any local vineyard where the harvest is long finished but cold weather has held off and the grapes left on the wines are berry berry sweet. The air was filled with beating wings Tuesday near Mont-sur-Rolle, Chateau Chas great […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: birds, harvest, Lake Geneva, leftover grapes, Mont-sur_Rolle, sweet, vineyards

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