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Verona

Verona: relearning Valpolicella

06/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Welcome to the 21st century! Valpolicella was one of my first wines, along with Chianti, drunk with pizzas as a student in Milwaukee – the cheaper the better. You can’t really blame the Verona area, home to these wines, for my youthful folly in drinking some of the worst of its products. This was 40 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Amarone, Amarone Tours, arena, Barbera, Bardolino, Caffè Dante Bistrot, Chiaretto, Classico, Coffele Viticoltori, Corvina, DOC, DOCG, Garganega, gnocchi, Great Wine Capitals of the World, La Bottega della Gina, Labotteghetta, Lake Garda, Lausanne wine tourism, Lugana, Masi, Molinara, opera, Osteria a la Cadrega, Recioto, Ripasso, Romeo & Juliet, Rondinella, Rossignola, Sangiovese grape, Serego Alighieri, Soave, Tenute Salvaterra, Tommasi, Turbiana grape, Valpolicella, Valpolicella Wine Route, Veneto, Verona, Verona Wine Tourism awards, Veronality, Villa Canestrari, Villa Cordevigo, Villa Cordevigo Wine Relais, Zeni

Treat yourself to Verona

06/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Plan ahead for springtime in Verona Here’s the perfect April treat: Verona, Italy. The medieval city, in the province of the same name, sits in the region of Veneto and is an easy train trip away from Switzerland. The food and wine are wonderful, there’s a wealth of art and architecture and history and the […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Amarone, arena, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bardolino, Benetton, Buglioni, Donna Leon, Great Wine Capitals of the World, Inspector Brunetti, opera, Recioto, Ripasso, Roman ruins, Romeo & Juliet, Soave, Valpolicella, Veneto, Venice, Verona, Villa Cordevigo, Vinitaly

Swiss and other wine news: top Chasselas, Verona, rosé fraud

12/07/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

World’s best Chasselas is from La Côte in Vaud – winery’s second time Cave de la Côte, a Swiss cooperative winery on the western edge of Lake Geneva, has won the top honour at the Mondial du Chasselas competition, which was held in early June: its La Montoise Esprit Terroir, Mont-sur-Rolle 2017 was named the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Cave de la Côte, Chateau de Châtagneréaz, fake rosé, France, Great Wine Capitals, Lausanne, Mondial du Chasselas, Spain, Verona

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