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Vin d'Œuvre

Citizen-vines: to be loved, to dance, to love

28/01/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The weather has been clement, holidays are over, and out in the vineyards, the steady snip-snip of electric pruning clippers fills the air, now emptied of migratory birds gone south. I will go home to a fine oaked Syrah tonight, ready after four years maturing and bottle-cellared. First, though, a walk through the vines. The […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Wineries Tagged With: Kellenberger, Love never dies, pruning, Syrah, Vin d'Œuvre

Winespeak: vine body parts

14/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

It’s high season for pruning vines in Switzerland, the job grape growers say determines whether or not they will have the best possible grapes. I spent a chilly afternoon learning to prune vines.

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Wineries Tagged With: grapevines, Kellenberger, pruning, the landscape of Swiss wine, Vin d'Œuvre, vineyards, winter vineyard work

Top picks, reds from Vinea fair

03/09/2016 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

I normally opt to taste a lot of Pinot Noir at the Vinea Wine Fair, but this year my focus was other reds, in particular Gamays and Cornalins. My notes on favourites from tasting them yesterday – Friday – follow, ending with other reds that were among my top wines tasted at Vinea. This year […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Aigle, Alain Emery, Anne-Catherine et Denis Mercier, black cherries in wine, Brivio, Cave La Romaine, Cave Les Deux Cîmes, Cave les Sentes, Cave Maurice Zufferey, Cave Philippe Bovet, Cornalin, Domaine des Muses, Domaine la Rodeline, Flanthey, Fully, Gamay, Givrins, Leuk-Stadt, Maurice Zufferey, Philippe et Véronyc Mettaz, Sierre, Ticino, Valais, Vaud, Vin d'Œuvre, Vinea 2016, Vinea Wine Fair

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