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Vinea Wine Fair

Uncork now, 8 March 2019

11/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Swiss wines with a touch of Scotland! Today’s wines are both Pinot Noirs, nothing pale or timid about either of them, one from Givrins near Geneva and the other from the Swiss Alps.

Filed Under: Food & dining, Uncork now Tagged With: Cave des Deux Cimes, Chamoson, Givrins, Jamie McCulloch, Philippe Bovet, Pinot Noir, Valais, Vaud, Vinea Wine Fair, Vins du Valais, Vins Vaudois

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

Programme for Vinea Swiss wines fair

17/08/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Join GL editor and Swiss wine specialist Ellen Wallace for official guided visit and introduction to Swiss wines, limited to 15 persons! In cooperation with Vinea Details GENEVA / ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Vinea, Switzerland’s largest outdoor wine fair, runs on Friday and Saturday this year, 31 August and 1 September. The full programme is now […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2012, Ellen Wallace, guided visit, learn about Swiss wines, Sierre, Swiss wine specialist writer, Vinea Wine Fair

Weekend weather, wine festival, Chillon observatory

01/09/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Temperatures are inching back up this weekend, with highs of 28C expected, but the warmer weather will bring some thundershowers with it in French-speaking Switzerland. Central Switzerland is more likely to be dry and sunny, so if you’re up or hiking, head for Interlaken or Lucerne. GenevaLunch will be publishing some suggestions […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Chillon, events, observatory, Sierre, Vinea Wine Fair, weather, weekend, what to do, what's on

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