Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HI there, If you talk about swiss wine and refer to Zurich, it is like talking about French wine and refering to wine from Normandy! The best Swiss wine can be fouund in Valais (Wallis), Geneva, Vaud bur surely not in Zurich area. You should try some white wine: Amigne, Petite Arvine, Chardonay, Malvoisie, Ermitage, Pinot gris, etc. or red: Cornalin, Humagne, some Pinot Noir, some Dole and forget about almost all wine from German speeking part of Switzerland. regards, logan >From: "jan schuller" <janschuller@hotmail.com> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Swiss wine (was: Nathan's PAW 41 and 42) >Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:09:11 +0200 > >Hi Nathan, > >ok, ok I admit: Swiss wine often is overprized considering the quality you >get usually. Although being a stranger to this country I had a sudden >attack >of local-patriotism when I read "not worth drinking". >I'm not a wine expert and not even a 'serious' wine consumer. But from time >to time I visit the little wine shop on the Rueden Platz (next to >Limmatquai) and ask the dealer for something local and was never >disappointed. A few days ago I went off with two bottles of a red sparkling >wine from Lake Zurich which was just excellent. > >To somehow keep it on topic: I participate in the PAY and hereby announce >that years 1999-2001 are up: >http://www.unizh.ch/~schuller/manou.htm >(Sorry I'm not very diligent in putting my pics on the web). > >Cheers, > >Jan > >>From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> >>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>Subject: [Leica] Re: Swiss wine (was: Nathan's PAW 41 and 42) >>Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:48:08 +0200 >> >>Hi Jan, >> >>I am sorry but this is my assessment based on my experience so far. My >>wife >>and I are both fairly serious wine drinkers, and we were thrilled to >>discover >>the vineyards when we arrived here last year. But so far all the local >>whites >>I have tried can at best be described as "pleasant but overpriced" and the >>reds are hardly worthy of the name wine. I am a bit puzzled by this, since >>the >>conditions appear excellent here on the Gold Coast of Lake Zurich: >>moderate >>rainfall, plenty of sun, nice steep slopes etc. Perhaps the terroir is not >>good, or maybe the farmers are not planting the right grapes, but >>certainly >>the wines cannot hold a candle to the magnificent wines from, say, Alsace >>or >>the Mosel valley in Germany. >> >>If you have information to prove me wrong, I would be very happy. >> >>Nathan >> >>jan schuller wrote: >> >> > Nathan, >> > >> > I like your pictures BUT >> > you wrote >> > >> > >The wine they make here around Lake Zurich is >> > >actually not worth drinking (except in emergencies) >> > >> > I question this (-; >> > >> > Jan >> > >> > _________________________________________________________________ >> > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >>http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >>-- >>Nathan Wajsman >>Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland >> >>e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch >> >>Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm >>General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm >> >> >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html