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French weigh in on Chardonnays, Swiss take 17 medals

20/03/2013 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – France leaves us with no doubts: they are the world’s Chardonnay masters, based on 872 wines from 42 countries that were judged at Château des Ravatys, the wine estate of the Pasteur Institute at Saint Lager in Burgundy, France this week. The Chardonnay-du-Monde wine competition‘s top 10 wines included 7 from France. Canada had […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Cave de Genéve, Chardonnay-du-Monde, godl, medals, Neuchatel, silver, Thiebaud & Co, winning wines

Judgement of Beijing: Ningxia wines top Bordeaux

18/12/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Four Chinese wines did better than Bordeaux wines in a small blind tasting competition of 10 wines, in Beijing 14 December: shades of the Judgement of Paris competition in 1976 that shook French growers to their roots and put US wines on the world’s sommelier maps. The Chinese wine market is widely […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Bordeaux, China, Helan mountains, Ningxia Province, Production, winning wines

List of top 66 Swiss wines in national Grand Prix

23/08/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Here’s the list of the 66 wines that are finalists in the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse 2011 national wine competition, by category, in alphabetical order within each category. These are the wines I wrote about yesterday that will compete for the 33 gold and silver medals to be awarded in October, […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 11 categories, 2011 Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, blends, Chasselas, Gamay, Merlot, Mueller-Thurgau, Pinot Noir, red, residual sugar, rosé, single grape wines, Sweet wines, top 66, white varietals, winning wines

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