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In the Google Alert for Zwicky on 10/31, a link to the Falstaff (wine agent’s) site advertising Zwicky Weiss. From Switzerland.

So, a brief visit to St. Gallen, to view this wine:

(#1) The black cat with the yarn is surely an allusion to Brun’s well-known Zwicky silk-thread poster:

(#2) The deluxe version of the Brun poster, advertising the Zwicky thread and yarn company (headquartered in Wallisellin, outside Zürich); Zwicky yarn is almost as well-known as Zwicky silk thread

The Falstaff text about #1:

The White Wine Zwicky Weiss, vintage 2023 from the winery Bosshart + Grimm Bio-Weingärten has been rated in 2024 by Dominik Vombach und Benjamin Herzog with 90 Falstaff points. It is a wine made from the grape varieties Sauvignon Blanc, Johanniter from the region Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. (20 – 50 €)

The winery also produces a Zwicky red:

The Red Wine Pinot Noir Zwicky Junge Reben, vintage 2019 from the winery Bosshart + Grimm Bio-Weingärten has been rated in 2021 by Benjamin Herzog, Dominik Vombach und Ursula Geiger with 92 Falstaff points. It is a wine made from the grape variety Pinot Noir from the region Sarganserland [a region in Canton St. Gallen] in Switzerland.

Finally, a St. Gallen landscape:

(#3) The obligatory impossibly picturesque photo (Conny Pokorny / Shutterstock)

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