Saas-Fee’s best chefs and sommeliers will present their finest creations as participants ramble through breathtaking mountain scenery.
Saas-Fee Gourmet Trail
June 24, 2012 (All day)
Events Place:
Saas-Fee Hannig gondola station, Saas-Fee Begin at Hannig valley station with an amuse-bouche in the company of expert wine connoisseurs from the region. Then take the gondola up to the top and make your way back down on foot surrounded by stunning mountain scenery. Along the way you’ll experience six more flights of culinary fancy, each of which will be coupled with the perfect Valais wine.
The Wine Grapes of Switzerland
Johannisberg
Second in white wines of Valais (after Fendant). The name Johannisberg is only used in Valais; the rest of French-speaking Switzerland call it Gros Rhin. The grape used to make Johannisberg is the Grüner Sylvaner. The origin of the grape is not clear. On the one hand it strongly resembles the Roman Apianisien (loved by bees) grape, as described by Pliny the Elder in his “Historia naturalis”, on the other hand, its more likely birthplace is in Romanian Transylvania.
Bondola
An indigenous and ancient red grape from Ticino, Bondola has slightly higher acidity and lower alcohol, and produces a good simple table wine, often called Nostrano.
Müller-Thurgau
Developed in Germany by Prof. Müller (from Thurgau), this early maturing white grape variety is one of the principal white grapes cultivated in German-speaking Switzerland. Produces elegant, aromatic wines when grown in cool temperate climates. In warmer locations these qualities tend to be masked by a certain heaviness and lack of acidity.
New loves and old wine, give a man these and he never refines.
Francis Beeding
