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Five Swiss rare wines

17/04/2016 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND – Thursday evening I gave a talk to a sellout crowd at the Anglo-Swiss Club in Locarno on unusual and rare Swiss grape varieties. We then tasted five of these wines. Here are some brief notes on the wines, with contact information for the wineries. All of these wines are produced in limited […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Travels, Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: Anglo-Swiss Club of Locarno, book-signing, Cave les Sentes, Completer, Cornalin, Denis & Catherine Mercier, Donatsch, Hotel Belvedere, Matasci, Räuschling, Rèze, Schwarzenbach, Serge Hemoz, Servagnin, tasting, Ville de Morges

Awash in Swiss wines again!

29/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne, Switzerland – A short note to explain my near-silence: it’s been a very busy summer in terms of wine, and the results of this will soon start to surface here, but right now I’m tied up with the new Swiss Wine Guide, second edition of the English version (it also comes out in French […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: competition, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, Jean Lenoir, judging, Le Nez du Vin, national, Swiss Wine Guide, tasting, visiting wineries in Switzerland

Open Day in Geneva: how to visit wineries, where to go (update)

28/05/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Update 29 May  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva is the grandaddy of Swiss wine open days: it was the first to offer this, in 1987, and the event has become hugely popular. Several things contribute to this: almost all the cellars participate, some 80 out of 95, they are geographically fairly close so it is […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 29 May 2010, AOC, canton, category sports, Geneva, grape varieties, labels, Learning about wine, open day, shuttle bus, tasting, wines

Swiss tasting week: La Semaine du Goût

19/09/2009 by Ellen Wallace

The annual La Semaine du Goût started today in Switzerland, and runs until 27 September 2009. Each canton offers an uncanny variety of activities for adults and children alike. From tasting workshops and cooking classes, to biodynamic growing techniques and wine making and tasting and even markets: there is truly something for everyone. Just click […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Add new tag, children, Cornalin, Delément, food, Foodie news and events, gastronomic restaurant, Geneva, geneve, gourmet, La Semaine du Goût, Lake Geneva, Les Vins du Valais, Marie-Therese Chappaz, MarketDay - Seasonal products, Markets and food fairs, Restaurants, dining, suisse, Switzerland, tasting, tasting class, tasting week, Valais, wine, workshops

Wine and chocolate tasting: summer family outing

16/07/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Wine and chocolate: a family affair A group of nine Côtes-de-l’Orbes wine producers are presenting their wines at the Caveau de Romainmôtier, along with chocolates from Pascale Philippe’s chocolate shop Passionnément Chocolat in Yverdon-les-Bains. In college I used to buy dark chocolate and a good bottle of Bordeaux and go to the local art cinema […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Caveau de Romainmôtier, children, chocolat, chocolate, Côtes-de-l'Orbes, dégustation, enfant, family, Foodie news and events, Geneva, geneve, Pascale Philippe, Passionnément Chocolat, suisse, Switzerland, tasting, vin, wine

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