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Vineyards high on Swiss mountain slopes
From white snow to red wine. The Swiss wine estate Domaine de Beudon is half an hour's drive from the ski resorts. Their wines are imported by The Lucky Grape and that is our good fortune, because Swiss wines are hard to come by: due to scarcity - the Swiss like to drink their wines themselves - and due to the price being high due to import taxes. Gamaret is a local Swiss grape, a cross between gamay and reichensteiner, growing in popularity due to resistance to fungal diseases and relatively early ripening. The warmth of the Rhone valley combined with the cool high mountains creates temperature changes that make this wine complex, strong and fleshy.
More drinks talk from WINELIFE Magazine 75:
Pikketanissie
'A pickle always goes down well,' Johnny Jordaan sang, and of course he was talking about genever. We have long since stopped thinking of grandpa with a shot glass in front of him, because making wine from
grain and then distilling it is totally hip and the flavours are very diverse.
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