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You can now find me on Substack and Medium

05/08/2022 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A happy move! Please note that as of August 2022 I am publishing a twice-monthly free subscription newsletter called Ellen’s Wine World, which points you to longer articles that I’m publishing on Medium. The newsletter link leads you to all of my recent articles and some archives from this blog, as I gradually move them […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Garden & nature, News, Travels, Uncork now, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Ellen Wallace wine, Swiss wine, Switzerland, the landscape of Swiss wine, wine, Wine Hiking Switzerland

Servagnin’s 600th birthday

12/02/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

This is the wine you must not miss in 2020. You might have to line up to taste it, but it’s worth the trouble. This is Servagnin’s 600th birthday year. Its story is charming and it is a wine worth celebrating. This may be as close as we get to what Burgundies once tasted like, […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Morges wines, Raoul Cruchon, Robert Cramer, Savoie, Servagnin, Swiss Grand Cru, Swiss wine, Swiss wine history, Vaud wines, Vins Vaudois

Aigle to host Bruxelles wine competition

13/05/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Big news for canton Vaud – and Switzerland – is that Aigle will host the 2019 Bruxelles wine competition, one of the world’s largest. The event will bring some 300 judges to Aigle to taste 9,000 wines from 2 to 5 May 2019 at the World Cycling Center in Aigle. The choice was announced as […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2019, Aigle, Concoours Mondiale de Bruxelles, Swiss wine, Switzerland host

Zap! Ticino sommelier’s speedy champagne uncorking

03/11/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s Mirko Rainier has just entered the Guinness World Records , reports Swiss public broadcaster RTS (you won’t yet find him officially listed there), for uncorking 47 bottles of champagne in one minute, using a saber. Rainier, sommelier and manager of the Atenaeo del vino restaurant in Mendrisio, canton Ticino, carried out […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: champagne cork and sword, Guinness World Record, Mendrisio, Mirko Rainier, sommelier, Swiss wine, Ticino

Study: wine labels influence our judgement

28/07/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Wine labels influence our decisions about buying wines, but they also affect how we assess wines we taste, a new Swiss study shows. Seeing the label may have up to a 60 percent impact on our evaluation of a wine we taste, Pascale Deneulin, senorial analysis professor at the Changins Agroscope federal […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Anne Müller, blind tasting, consumers, Domaine Burignon, labels, Noémie Graff, Satyr, Swiss wine

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