Playing Bond, James Bond, at a Swiss Wine Hotel
The lure of 007 and having bubbles at their fingertips in the Bollinger Suite pulls some people into Erlinsbach, in northern Switzerland, for a night…
Naturally, we’re focussed on German-Speaking Switzerland here. And yes, that’s the actual name of the region! Although less than a quarter of Swiss wines come from the cool, high vineyards in this Alpine area, we find this fraction most compelling. Pinot Noir makes up half the plantings. If you’ve had Swiss Pinot, you know exactly why this is such an exciting statistic. The Swiss are also in the forefront of organic and biodynamic viticulture, making this an excellent region to explore if you’re going green.
The lure of 007 and having bubbles at their fingertips in the Bollinger Suite pulls some people into Erlinsbach, in northern Switzerland, for a night…
In a Swiss park, a footpath leads from Leuk, a village straddling the Rhone, up to Varen, which is perched on a cliff. The trail…
Skin-contact white wines may have their revolutionary roots in Georgia, Slovenia, and Friuli, but the umlaut zone also stakes a strong claim for orange expressions. Austria…
It was biodynamic wine that helped me to find my footing in Europe. Yet, as a Black American woman living in Europe, Rudolf Steiner’s interests and views present a complicated and troubling legacy.
Swiss wines remain rare on the international wine scene. But a new generation of talent committed to uncompromising work and meaningfully sustainable viticulture is slowly…
It would be easy to dismiss what happens in the tiny winegrowing country of Switzerland as an inconsequential alpine eddy, an iridescent surge in the…
An initial Internet search on Schiller reveals little more than references to Friedrich Schiller, the 18th-century poet and philosopher from Württemberg. While many have assured…
The Donatschs were never conformists. Starting in the 1970s, Thomas Donatsch of Graubünden turned the Swiss wine landscape on its head with his illegal Chardonnay…
Heida is an old variety with a modern freshness planted in the Swiss Valais heights of the Visperterminen.
Banned and beloved, feared and revered, one would assume the birth story of absinthe to be as spirited as its character. Yet its quite conventional…
I’ve read about as widely on Swiss wines as an Anglophone can: the relevant chapters of Jason Wilson’s delicious Godforsaken Grapes. The late Sue Style’s…
By traditional measures, my first year of college was a waste. I spent a lot of it playing cards with a gang of liberal theologians…