A wine that has the barest hint of sweetness; a slightly sweet wine in which the residual sugar is barely perceptible.
Wine Tasting
The Wine Grapes of Switzerland
Mondeuse
An old red grape variety well known in neighboring Savoie, Mondeuse is a rarity found in scattered plots in Chablais (Vaud).
Vieux Muscat du Pays
A very old small berry Valais grape, difficult to cultivate. It is an aromatic specialty limited almost exclusively to Valais. Some clone or mutation of the Muscat is grown on almost every continent.
Altesse
More appreciated on its home turf between Lyon and Lake Geneva, it thrives in Valais
New loves and old wine, give a man these and he never refines.
Francis Beeding
