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Valais wines

Arvine, easy does it

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

What Arvine en Capital gets exactly right It’s all about the way your nose sniffs it, isn’t it? twitching like a rabbit to get a whiff of rhubarb or maybe wisteria in the air. And about the way your mouth lets it flow in, air and wine in a tight weave, moving together so that […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave Rodeline, Claudine and Yvon Roduit, Fully, Fully en Capital, Gerard Dorsaz, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Swiss 2018 wines, Valais wines

Arvine, November 2019 picks

01/12/2019 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

Background article on Fully en Capital, the wine-tasting event where I sampled these wine selections. Arvines to fall in love with The 22 wineries that are members of the Association Fully Grand-Cru present their Arvines each November. Arvine is the second most widely grown grape in Fully, 32.3 hectares versus 73.3 ha for Fendant (Chasselas). […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Benoît Dorsaz, Cave des Amandiers, Cave Rodeline, Claudine and Yvon Roduit, Fully, Fully en Capital, Gerard Dorsaz, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Swiss 2018 wines, Valais wines

A hard road to Chamoson

15/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Jamie McCulloch picks up a few rays of the wintry sun outside the post office of Chamoson, waiting for his visitor. His face has the look of Scotland for me and I immediately recall men outside pubs in the west of Scotland, facing the setting sun and reflecting on the world. McCulloch is, however, a […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Black Magic wine, Cave Les Deux Cîmes, Chamoson, Jamie McCulloch, Petite Arvine, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Scottish winemaker, Swiss wine landscape, Swiss wines, the landscape of Swiss wine, Valais wines, White Magic wine

Uncork now, 14 February 2019

14/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

This week, two more Swiss red blends, at affordable prices, like last week. But this time the two are very different, one from Vétroz in Valais and the other from the Côte d’Orbes in Vaud. As a bonus, a wine for special moments and a reminder that some wines need more time. Rebbio 2017 from […]

Filed Under: Uncork now Tagged With: Cave des Treize Coteaux, Cave Jean-René Germanier, Chamoson, Cornalin, Côtes de l'Orbe, Esprit de Baulmes, Hommage Maurice Gay, Leuk, Merlot, Pinot Noir Gamaret, Rebbio, Swiss oak barrels, Valais wines, Vétroz, vineyard in conversion, Viti Antiqua 1798, Vollèges

Swiss winery wins world tourism “public choice” vote

12/12/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Celliers de Sion, the year-old wine tourism centre in Sion, is capping its first year with yet another prize: the “public choice award” among the international finalists at the Great Wine Capitals of the World wine tourism awards. The new venture was given an “international best of wine tourism award” in Adelaide, Australia in early […]

Filed Under: News, Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Bonvin winery, Celliers de Sion, Great Wine Capitals of the World, International Best of Wine Tourism, Lausanne Great Wine Capital, Valais wines, Varone winery, wine tourism, Yann Stucki

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