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Zurich

Zurich, with wine on the brain

04/05/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Switzerland has such distinctly different areas that when you live in one you really have to move around and visit others to make sense of the whole. I’m spending a couple of days out of my French comfort zone to stumble and mumble in greater Zürich. With wine on the brain, of course. Thursday evening […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Amarone, Chez Crettol, culture, German-speaking, Paul Liversedge, Primitivo, Realwines, wine tastes, Zurich

Wines from Spain, mulled pleasures

07/03/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I spent a happy Saturday in February tasting some very good Spanish wines in Zurich, at the Robert Parker Matter of Taste – the wines at the public tasting are all rated 90 or above, so it was a powerhouse kind of day. Most were from the north of Spain, with an exciting dash over […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: 2018, Acusp, Annatina Pelizzatti, Bierza, Jenins Graübunden, Luis Gutiérrez, Menciá grape, Palacios, Pinot Noir, Priorat, Raül Bobet, Rioja, Robert Parker Matter of Taste, Spanish wine, Telmo Rodriguez, Tempranillo, Tenerife, Villa de Corullón, Zurich

What makes a wine traditional?

03/03/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Tradition is a hot word in wine marketing right now, one that reassures consumers – and yet few of us who are on the buying end of the sales chain question what it means, I think. If you have been making wine the same way for 50 years, does that make your wine traditional? 100 years? Or what […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: AOP, Blaise Duboux, Chasselas, cheese, Cornalin, Dézaley, Dôle, Domaine Chappaz, Epesses, Etivaz, Fully, La Liaudisaz, Maurice Zufferey, Meilen, R3 Räuschling, Roquefort, Sierre, Vaud, Zurich

Best of Merlots: Zurich awards

27/05/2016 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

New vs Old World Merlots; love at first sip The top wine at the Mondial du Merlot, which handed out awards 18 May in Zurich, is from Uruguay’s Bouza Bodega Boutique – a winner that provided the start of some interesting discoveries made during the event (it also made me want to catch the next […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Argentina, awards, Beetschen, Bouza, Brivio, Dézaley, Gialdi, Krasia May, Moncucchetto, Mondial du Merlot, Monti, Philippe Bovet, Platinum, Rovio, Tamborini, Ticino, Uruguay, Uvavin, Zurich

What’s the deal with older wines?

11/03/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I’m about to start a series of reports here on older vintage Swiss wines. I’ve hesitated because of a niggling question: why should the public care about them? What’s the big deal, as far as drinkers are concerned? First, some key dates if you want to taste vintage wines: Two excellent ways to enjoy and […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Agriloro, Dominique Rouvinez, Henri Cruchon winery, Les Parfums du Vin, Meinfred Perler, older vintages, Raoul Cruchon, Räuschling, Richard Pfister, Rouvinez winery, Schwarzenbach winery, tertiary aromas, Zurich

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