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 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